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A Handyman Goes to Prison

  A HANDYMAN GOES TO PRISON                 Why am I in a prison? Well, the short answer is that I needed the job. There are powerful people that have blackballed me from working anywhere in the Solar System. Someone even hired a hitman to take me out. And it’s all because I made the hard choice on Eris. There was no scenario where people weren’t going to die. My solution saved more lives than it took. The problem was that the wrong people died. People that were connected. So, I set up shop on one of the lesser-known asteroids in the Kuiper Belt. The only people that know about it are ship captains. It makes an ideal way station for emergency repairs. It was how I managed not to starve to death. There are two things I am good at. I’m a good dancer and I’m a problem solver. Dancing never got me anywhere, but solving problems is what made me a good bounty hunter. It also makes me a good engineer. I seem to...
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My Best Friend is a Hall Monitor

                 He’s not really a hall monitor. That’s just what I like to call their “profession”. Technically they are called subspace sentries. I think my term for them is more accurate.             Don’t get me wrong. What they do is absolutely necessary. Ever since we found out about multiverse travelers the Star Force patrol has been overwhelmed. The passages between universes have to be monitored and regulated. That’s where my friend, Ahlan, comes in.             Ahlan Gaines and I both started out as bounty hunters. We were trained by the great Pollux Holden. Pol might be too slow to hunt anymore, but his alumni have the highest success rate in the Solar System. Before he got hired by Star Force, Ahlan was well on his way to breaking the record of confirmed catches. It was a record I was never going to approach. My...
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