Chapter 3 of my Do-Over Echo has been queued up. I also reposted Chapter 2 with minor corrections.
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Everything that glitters...
The inspiration for this short story was an 80's Country song by Dan Seals and a story by Thinking Horndog, the creator of The Swarm Cycle. If you have not read his story, 'Buying Wholesale', go ahead and do that and you will see where this story fits. It's just a vignette inside a larger canvas. This was never intended as a stand-alone story.
I think that tiny subset of Country song fans and Swarm fans will really enjoy it. I sure had a blast writing it.
Swarm fans who are not fans of 80s Country music, I think the story will be fun for you too.
If you are neither an old Country fan nor a Swarm Cycle fan, well, I pity you. ;)