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    Symbiont Seeking Symbiont
    Symbiont Seeking Symbiont
    Symbiont Seeking Symbiont
    Ebook28 pages17 minutes

    Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

    By Jennifer Foehner Wells

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    Allus Jenson is a space pirateer on a layover between jobs. The ship she lives and works in is waylaid on a barren planet for repairs. She’s bored, goes for a stroll, and meets someone who would very much like to spend the rest of their life with her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJennifer Foehner Wells
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781524203641
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      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont - Jennifer Foehner Wells

      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

      a short story

      Jennifer Foehner Wells

      Blue Bedlam Science Fiction

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

      Afterword

      About the Author

      Also by Jennifer Foehner Wells

      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont Copyright © 2015 by Jennifer Foehner Wells. All rights reserved.

      Originally published in The Galaxy Chronicles (2015), edited by Jeff Seymour, part of The Future Chronicles series created by Samuel Peralta.

      No part of this story may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      For Dr. Lauri Sammartano,

      one of my greatest teachers and a continued source of inspiration.

      To insult someone we call him 'bestial.’ For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

      Isaac Asimov

      Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

      Population Count External To Target #987,346,230,221,783,981

      Allus Jenson didn’t know a damn thing about engineering, or plumbing, or kinetic fusion…or whatever. It didn’t really matter. Something was wrong with the ship, and she sure as shit wasn’t going to be the one to fix it. She was the medic/accountant/sometime janitor/pretty

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