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you these fantastic stories each and every month. So our story is titled The Scene of

the Crime is by Leonard Richardson. Leonard Richardson, who can be found at the website crummy.com

is a writer and software developer who lives in New York City, his fiction has appeared

in strange horizons and analog and he is the author of two SF novels, Constellation

games and situation normal. And if you like what you hear, you can go to two spacesuits,

which was featured in our April 2022 issue. So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit

back, relax and let me tell you a story. I already had learned one rule early in his

pupil stage, never called the cops. The Akate take care of their own. However bad the trouble

is, bringing in the green gloves will only make things worse. Apparently that ruled

in an apply here on the frontier. I already had brought a problem to Dr. Mew's attention.

And instead of dealing honorably, she had called the cops on him. And now here she was,

one extra large Koshua cop named Ravi Uvana. I already stared down the cop from the interior

airlock of the one room consortium government ship, but after Ravi Uvana blinked at him several

times, he realized she didn't even know a stare down was happening. So said I already

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