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The Escort
by Paul Larkin
It’s all about soft landings. Danny didn’t know this at the time. A soft landing, he once would have said, was something a space explorer made on the moon, or Mars, or some such body in the galaxy. But then Danny got a bit older and went to college and he saw soft landings all around him and realised that he did not have one. The prospect of one. The comfort of one. Not that he needed one right then, when ....
(I have temporarily removed this short story while it has been entered in a writing competition. Best of luck to the Escort!)
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