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It includes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Scales of the Space Whale<\/strong><br \/>\nThe most dangerous creatures in the universe will kill you before they know you exist!<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Beginning<\/strong><br \/>\nParadise is not what\u2014or where\u2014it seems.<br \/>\n(After Dinner Conversation, August 2020)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Ice Incarnate<\/strong><br \/>\nThey say that going into cryo is the closest thing to death short of actually dying. I believe it.<br \/>\n(1st place, 2009 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Contest BYU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>When She Awakes<\/strong><br \/>\nTo pay her father&#8217;s debt, she must offer herself as coin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Infiltrator<\/strong><br \/>\nThe aliens are already among us, in a form we refuse to see.<br \/>\n(Not Far From Roswell, December 2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abductors<\/strong><br \/>\nAlways check your backblast before launching your UFO.<br \/>\n(Never before published!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starchild<\/strong><br \/>\nThe revolutions passed, and the stars spun silently underfoot.<br \/>\n(Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>L\u2019enfer, c\u2019est la Solitude<\/strong><br \/>\nWar is not the only hell in the cold, empty void of space.<br \/>\n(Perihelion, March 2016; The New Accelerator, August 2018)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Janus Anomaly<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do you do when you&#8217;re the only sane one and everyone else is crazy?<br \/>\n(Kasma Magazine, May 2019; Twilight Tales, February 2021)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lizzie-99XT<\/strong><br \/>\nTo save humanity, she must become the machine.<br \/>\n(Serial Magazine, August 2019)<\/p>\n<p><em>This audiobook is auto-narrated. 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