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Our third story for the month of January 2016 is titled Extraction Request.

It is by Rich Larson.

Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and in Spain and at 23 now writes from

Edmonton, Alberta. His short work has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and

has appeared in numerous years best anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Asimov's

Analog, Clark's World, FNSF, Inner Zone, Strange Horizons, Light Speed, and Apex.

You can find Rich at his website, Rich W Larson. Tumblr.com, and if you like what you hear, go back to

October 2015, where he penned the piece, Ice.

February 2015 brought you meshed. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

When they finally shift the transport still smoldering wing enough to drag Beasley out from where he was pinioned, for a moment all Elliot can do, all anyone can do, is stare.

Beasley's wiry arm with its bioluminescent tattoos is near sheared from its socket.

And below his hips he's nothing but

pulped meat and splinters of bone. He's still alive still mumbling maybe about

the women Elliot saw and a little hollow with her arms thrown around his neck.

Back before Beasley's dreadlocked mane was shaved off and a conscript clamp was implanted

at the top of his spine.

His impact kit never triggered, someone says,

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