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forward slash Clark's world.

So our story today is titled Occurrence at 01339.

Kelly Jennings was born in New Orleans,

but now lives in the Boston Mountains,

where she writes science fiction

when she is not catering to cats. She has published many short stories

and three novels, the most recent being In the Deep, published by Candlemark and Gleam.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, back relax and let me tell you a story

Sales spread wide Ruby RB 165 mining unit ETA, rode the solar wind.

Oh, one three-39 was only an hour away now.

Navigation tracked the route. Construction busied itself with reprint codes,

readying the build of hoppers and refineries upon their arrival. Trouble shooter ran

hypotheticals. Shipping slumbered. It's worked on all as well. Prospector predicted with an 80%

certainty that 01-39 would boost Ruby into exceeds expectations. A D-type planetoid,

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