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Encounter [MultiFormat]
eBook by Stephen Leigh
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Sitting in the front of VFW halls and parks around the country are the discarded, silenced weapons from old wars. But what if the weapon isn't a machine, but a human, transformed and altered, a living person who you can't disable or turn off. When the war is over, what happens to him?
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Destinies 3, ed. Jim Baen, 1977
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [223 KB], eReader (PDB) [37 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [24 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [22 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [82 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [95 KB], hiebook (KML) [61 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [50 KB], iSilo (PDB) [20 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [25 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [53 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [35 KB]
Words: 7287
Reading time: 20-29 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Voll felt so damned useless, and he simply wanted out. A simple enough desire. The land, his land, spread about him in lonely splendor, the hills choked with brush and the trees turning brown and bare. The painted days of the short autumn weren't long past. Somewhere, near him but unseen, a brook thrashed its way between and around the rocks of its bed. Occasionally, he would stoop and pick up a stone, eventually casting it westward, away from the boundaries of his land. There didn't seem to be much else to do. The memories kept coming back. Irresistible, they shivered through him like ebony lances, the weapons of dreams. He would try to stop them, thinking of anything else, knowing how he would feel afterward--yet Voll always lost that battle, finally surrendering himself to the past, the surcease from pain always brief and ineffectual.
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