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    Riding the Drone
    Riding the Drone
    Riding the Drone
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    Riding the Drone

    By S. A. Barton

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    'Nobody gets blown up in the Air Force,' the legless Army vet who hung out in the public library all day used to tell him.

    Find out if that's true or not.

    "Riding the Drone" is a very short story of about 1150 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS. A. Barton
    Release dateFeb 5, 2014
    ISBN9781311806659
    Riding the Drone
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    S. A. Barton

    S.A. Barton knows third person bios look professional, but he doesn't care for them nonetheless.I prefer to be more personal, partly because overcompartmentalization is a former flaw I remain mindful of. As a (recently diagnosed) autistic/ADHD human, I have many reasons to remain mindful and many rewards for doing so. I dislike the label disability but understand it does sometimes apply to me and my work–but enough about that.I live in the Chicagoland exurbs near parentals and my sole sibling and her family, where the city is in reach but the deer are closer. Like many writers I often live in my own head; I prefer to be close to nature and select humans daily so I don't stay there.My children live in Virginia with their mom and her husband. Buy more of my books, please: help finance some in-person visits because thrice-weekly videocalls are good but not the same as IRL hugs.My writing is diverse and reflects all of the above as well as roughly four decades of personal seeking and many jobs beginning with my rural Wisconsin roadside worm stand, begun to finance an RPG habit in 1981 and shut down by the state when my success began luring customers from the local bait shop.You'll find my more polished and mostly self-published fiction here; so far my nonfiction lives with my visual art and select fiction on Patreon.com/sabarton and Twitter.com/sabartonwrites :)

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