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    Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike: Kris Longknife
    Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike: Kris Longknife
    Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike: Kris Longknife
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    Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike: Kris Longknife

    By Mike Shepherd

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    You knew it had to happen sooner or later.  Abby had a problem and she figures the only way to solve it is to bring everything to a roaring halt.  It had to happen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKL&MM Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
    ISBN9781386859741
    Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike: Kris Longknife
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    Mike Shepherd

    Mike Shepherd is the author of Like Another Lifetime In Another World an historic fiction based on his experiences as a reporter for Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam in 1967 and ‘68. It too is available through iUniverse.com. Shepherd is a free-lance writer who lives in the country near Springfield, Illinois.

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      Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike - Mike Shepherd

      Kris Longknife’s Maid Goes On Strike

      Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike

      Kris Longknife

      Mike Shepherd

      Published by KL&MM Books, 2017.

      Kris Longknife’s Maid Goes On Strike

      Life on Alwa Station: A Novelette

      Mike Shepherd

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      Kris Longknife’s Maid Goes on Strike

      Life on Alwa Station: A Novelette

      by

      Mike Shepherd

      Published by KL & MM Books

      June

      ,

      2017

      Copyright © 2017 by Mike Moscoe

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      This book is a work of fiction set 400 years in humanity’s future. Any similarity between present people, places or events would be spectacularly unlikely and is purely coincidental.

      This book is written and published by the author. Please don’t pirate it. I’m self-employed. The money I earn from the sales of these books allows me to produce more stories to entertain you. I’d hate to have to get a day job again. If this book comes into your hands free, please consider going to your favorite e-book provider and investing in a copy so I can continue to earn a living at this

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      I would like to thank my wonderful cover artist, Scott Grimando, who did all my Ace covers and will continue doing my own book covers. I also am grateful for the editing skill of Lisa Müller, David Vernon Houston, Edee Lemonier, and, as ever, Ellen Moscoe.

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      Abby Nightingale leaned back in her desk chair and sighed. She was

      finally

      done

      .

      Her desk was clean – as much as it ever was. Her in-baskets, both real and virtual, were either empty or tapped down enough that they wouldn’t catch fire for at least two weeks. She could finally walk away from her job and enjoy two weeks’ vacation. She had the papers signed, sealed, and printed out in her purse.

      I’m a free woman, she shouted joyfully, but very softly.

      Abby’s office was right next door to Pipra Strongarm’s executive suite. Being this close to the CEO of most of the industrial production in

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