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    Going to the Dogs
    Going to the Dogs
    Going to the Dogs
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    Going to the Dogs

    By Michael D. Britton

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    A reluctant vacation for two couples quickly devolves into a desperate life-and-death fight when one member of the party decides to cross a galactic crime lord - with apocalyptic consequences...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntelligent Life Books
    Release dateSep 13, 2012
    ISBN9781301592180
    Going to the Dogs
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    Michael D. Britton

    Michael D. Britton has been writing professionally for 25 years, including heading up marketing departments, working in huge private corporations, writing for government entities, supporting non-profit healthcare systems, sprinting with tiny tech start-ups, freelancing, and a producing TV news broadcasts in the 90s. His short fiction has received ten honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, among other recognition; and his novels have advanced through multiple rounds of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in various years. His list of indie-published fiction titles exceeds 65 and keeps increasing. Learn more at www.michaeldbritton.com.

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      As the debris from what used to be Gerlax Prime approached my skiff from behind, I punched the throttle and accelerated to G-50 in a heartbeat, outrunning the hurtling chunks of rock.

      The explosion of my business partner’s home world shrunk into the distance behind me, a trillion tiny sparks expanding into the blackness of space.

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