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    Errant Shot
    Errant Shot
    Errant Shot
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    Errant Shot

    By William Petersen

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    To think that there are no other sentient beings in the universe borders on vanity.
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    To think that other sentient beings would be any less prone to violence and war than humans borders on naivety.
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    Collateral damage is a reality with any conflict.
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    What if there is undelivered ordinance... stray bullets... from distant, cosmic conflicts floating through space like wandering asteroids or long-period comets?
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    What if bystander Earth was the victim of one of these... errant shots?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Petersen
    Release dateFeb 19, 2014
    ISBN9781310040894
    Errant Shot
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    William Petersen

    William hails from Missouri and finds endless inspiration within the natural world for science-fiction, horror and fantasy... A proud member of the St. Louis Area Horror Writers' Society, William's writing has appeared in anthologies from The Bearded Scribe Press and JWK Fiction, as well as in Nebula Rift, Under the Bed, Far Horizons and Calamities Press Literary magazines.

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      Errant Shot - William Petersen

      Errant Shot

      By: William Petersen

      Copyright 2014 William Petersen

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      Errant Shot

      Tim awoke without opening his eyes, the muffled sounds of the television slipping words into his semi-consciousness, hundreds injured... no official count yet, but there are confirmed fatalities... air-burst...

      The last two words caused his eyes to snap open and his brain to uncomfortably fall into reality. Air-burst... he said aloud. Tim sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes and lit a cigarette, then brought his attention back to the broadcast.

      ...less than a mile above the city at around three-thirty in the morning. Most Kansas City residents were sound asleep, and other than the huge fireball in the sky preceding the explosion, there was no warning at all, the news anchor, a very attractive brunette in a red pantsuit, told him. Most injuries were from flying glass and other airborne debris, but several smaller buildings, in and around the city, were damaged, and some actually collapsed under the assault. The size of the object is not yet known, and so far, no pieces have been found on the ground, the anchorwoman elaborated.

      Tim's interest was piqued. He had planned to sleep in today and start four days of fishing and drinking at a local conservation area: a set of three medium-sized lakes nestled just outside of Old Mill, Missouri, about seventy-five miles outside of St. Louis. However, he was just as interested in fossils and rare rocks as he was fishing, and meteorites were about as rare as they came. He had found four confirmed meteorites since he semi-retired and took up rock hunting and fishing on a full-time basis.

      After making a cup of instant coffee and checking the news feeds online, Tim momentarily thought of the cash that a piece of the space rock

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