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An Excerpt from Kate Welty's 'Travelers'

Tales from the Perseus Arm Vol. 2

ISBN-13: 978-0992541538

 

-----------EXCERPT 'Travelers' by Kate Welty, Tales from the Perseus Arm Vol. 2-----------

 

"Lena?  Lena?” 

 

A worried voice was coming from outside her Tribute Room.  For just a moment, the old fear that someone might discover her obsession stabbed through Lena, but then a heavy coldness replaced that pang of dread.  It didn’t matter anymore.  GH was dead.  The Bastard had killed it with his cheap introduced romance that split apart her two Galactic Heroes and destroyed forever their perfect pairing.  All her dreaming, her fantasies, and her romantic notions about her two brave heroes facing an uncertain universe together, were dead.

 

“Lena?  Lena, honey?  Where are you?  You’re scaring me,” came Maddie’s voice.

 

Stoically, Lena extricated herself from her livingchair, forced herself upright and opened the Tribute Room door.   Maddie’s wide eyes stared into hers from the middle of the outer room for a moment, and then her friend rushed forward and enveloped her in a hug.  “Oh, sweetie.  Whatever happened?  You look awful!”

 

“I’m fine,” Lena said hoarsely, “Just… just a little tired, that’s all.  What brings you over?”

 

“It was Roger,” Maddie said.  “He wanted to make sure you hadn’t changed your mind before he hired someone else for his promo project.  I told him if you said no once, you’d hardly-”

 

“Roger,” Lena said slowly.  “Roger.  Is he here then?”

 

“He’s just outside.  I thought he’d better not come in.  Just in case, well in case you had someone over or-”

 

Lena strode to the door and pulled it open.  Roger drew himself up from where he’d been leaning against the wall and opened his mouth.

 

Lena forestalled him by demanding, “You said ‘Any impossible dream.’  Did you mean it?”

 

“Yes,” Roger said. 

 

The woman before him looked as if she’d recently suffered through some personal tragedy, but at his response she visibly straightened, her eyes glittered and she thrust her hand out at him like a weapon.

 

“You have a deal, Roger.”

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Read 'Travelers' by Kate Welty in its entirety.  You'll find this new story and eleven other wonderful tales by returning and new authors in Tales from the Perseus Arm Volume 2.  Buy it today!

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