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    Aeroparts Factory
    Aeroparts Factory
    Aeroparts Factory
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    Aeroparts Factory

    By Paul Kater

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    A short steampunk novel about the happenings around a factory where parts for airships are made...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Kater
    Release dateDec 17, 2010
    ISBN9781458182722
    Aeroparts Factory
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    Paul Kater

    Paul Kater was born in the Netherlands in 1960. He quickly developed a feel for books and languages but ended up in the IT business despite that. Books and languages never ceased to fascinate him, so since 2003 he's been actively writing, encouraged by friends on the internet. The internet is the reason why most of his work is in English. A friend asking for writing help is why some of his writing is now also in Dutch. Paul currently lives in Cuijk, the Netherlands, with his books, possibly with cats, and the many characters he's developed in the past years, who claim he is a figment of their imagination.

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      Aeroparts Factory - Paul Kater

      Aeroparts factory

      by Paul Kater

      Published by the author at Smashwords - Copyright 2010 Paul Kater

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      Contents:

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 1

      Sweaty, dirty horses pulled carts up and down the street, from where most cobblestones had disappeared. The cobbles had been put to good use over the years, to repair houses or to be thrown at coppers on some raid or other. Someone had done a reasonably good job in making sure that the carts would be able to go through the street despite that: there were two paths in it. Calling them lanes would be overdone, but there was one cobblestone side and one made of sand.

      The street was in a neighbourhood that, let's face it, did not belong to the better parts of town. Nor would it fit in the more regular ones. The rows of low buildings on either side of the road, the slate roofs in various states of miserable, were not appealing to the eye, yet there was a lot of business going on in front of some, and inside some others. The few buildings that lay abandoned were unfit for living creatures so much that even rats preferred taking a detour around them.

      The street looked raggedy, and not at all cared for. It was perhaps best portrayed by looking at the few people that lay huddled up under motley blankets and other pieces of fabric that were meant to offer some protection against the elements. They had found

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