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This is our second story for the month of August.

2020, Issue 167.

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Our second story is titled Drawing Lines Between the Stars and is by Frank Smith. Frank Smith is a writer living in

Austin, Texas where he maintains a love-hate relationship with Agave Plants.

He has an MFA and creative writing from The New School and is a member of Sifwa.

His stories have appeared in Asimov's and Analog as well as other fine publications. You can find him at Frank-Smith.com and follow his toy photography on

Instagram at Frank Photo Works. So my dear listener I hope you can sit back

relax and I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Ambient lights dimmed throughout the Starship,

the arbitrary definition of nighttime on the Bakunawa varied

within a confusion of workstation alerts was a flashing red distress beacon.

Transitioning from memetic eye sensor controls to standard, manual

controls gave me a headache. I left the beacon for Captain Anome to find.

We were on our usual route home, coasting outside the belt loaded up with a cargo of silicate

rocks and water from Europa.

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