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    Outer Sky
    Outer Sky
    Outer Sky
    Ebook18 pages17 minutes

    Outer Sky

    By Daniel LaGrave

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    The human race is dwindling. Its grandeur all but forgotten. A majority of the great strides made in philosophy, art, technology, and science lay buried in the rubble of the past. Forgotten.

    Still some cruel spark of humanity remained, undaunted, determined to survive. For the first time in generations, and in secret men and women will be hurled to the stars. To where, and what does it mean to be human?

    Author's note: Hey all, Just wanted you, the reader, to know that this story has been revised as 04/15/13. This has been done to correct mistakes which were missed in earlier "printings."
    Thank you, and I hope you enjoy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel LaGrave
    Release dateSep 8, 2012
    ISBN9781301415205
    Outer Sky
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    Daniel LaGrave

    Hello, My name is Daniel Hoover, and I am a writer of short fiction, though I plan to write full length novels in the future. In terms of my writing I tend to examine humanity, both its light, and dark aspects. I generally also like to allow the story to follow its own nature, and be unexpected. I appreciate feedback, so if you check out one of my stories, and had any thoughts on it let me know.

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      Outer Sky - Daniel LaGrave

      Outer Sky.

      Daniel LaGrave.

      Copyright © 2010 by Daniel LaGrave.

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      Emily Collgate sat in the dom she’d once been so lucky to draw once she’d come of age. Everything she would never again need packed into crates for the redistribution crews to come and pick it up.

      When she had taken over the living space the chair, a woven chair whose aluminum frame appeared to have more dings, and dents than it had smooth surfaces was already there. The fabric suspended on the tubular frame work of the seat must have changed over time to a washout green, she couldn’t stand that color-green; it always felt so un-natural. Still when you were sitting in it you couldn’t see it, and besides it had been an antique.

      The chair had been sitting next to a real honest to goodness window made of smart glass, and not that cheaper poly resin almost everyone else had if they were fortunate enough to have a window in their dom. Most people simply had wall space. Usually windows were only found at mid-sky now, but there used to be a lot more she’d been told, down in the older doms of the lower sky. Those though had been removed when those living in the lower sky levels,

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