Space Juice: Chapter 16 – High on clictus
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. The sun set. Unfamiliar stars glimmered over the cloudless plains. The Old One ordered a communal meeting and the Ungarlootons formed a circle. Chuck Marley and Gaston Dimble squatted either side of Old One. They sipped clictus juice out of unwieldy clay vessels that were smoothly ovular, with a nipple-like projection at the …
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Space Juice: Chapter 15 – A warm bath
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. Chuck Marley summoned Jed and his cybernetic hovercab. Jed knew little of Ungarloot, except that it was a collection of hovels scattered loosely at the bottom of an arid slope beneath a mountain ridge. Jed made it clear he was not going to drop them in the town centre. Too isolated. Anything could …
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Space Juice: Chapter 14 – Jellyfish of Europa
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. A steady breeze buffeted the red sand. A mild sandstorm gripped the continent. Red sand was totally useless, unlike its dusty namesake: red dust. The dust felt fine and powdery, red sand was coarse. The only relation it bore to red dust was colour. The sand existed everywhere, from plains and valleys to …
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Space Juice: Chapter 2 – Seek, watch, believe
Dan WildPrevious Chapter.. One person was unaccounted for. Insomniac Fluton. Chuck Marley found him in the sleeping quarters. Amazingly, he was actually lying on one of the two bunks in the narrow quarters, fast asleep, on his back, hands neatly folded on chest. It would be a crime to wake him. But he had already ordered …
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