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Adrift: A Short Story
When a highly valuable precious metal is discovered on Saturn’s moon, Titan, the United States and China form a joint mission to travel there and mine this profitable new resource.
Robert Atwood is an average labor worker living paycheck-to-paycheck, so when he’s offered the opportunity to join the mission with the promise of returning home with a small fortune, he jumps at the chance. The proposition is simple: give up seven years of his life to return to Earth a millionaire.
Several years into the mission, Robert wakes from cryo-sleep to discover he is the only remaining survivor on a ship stranded millions of miles from home. He is about to find out what it truly means to be alone.
Adrift is approximately 4,000 words long. It contains an active table of contents and is specially formatted for your Kindle.
Robert Atwood is an average labor worker living paycheck-to-paycheck, so when he’s offered the opportunity to join the mission with the promise of returning home with a small fortune, he jumps at the chance. The proposition is simple: give up seven years of his life to return to Earth a millionaire.
Several years into the mission, Robert wakes from cryo-sleep to discover he is the only remaining survivor on a ship stranded millions of miles from home. He is about to find out what it truly means to be alone.
Adrift is approximately 4,000 words long. It contains an active table of contents and is specially formatted for your Kindle.
14 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 13, 2012
17 people want to read
About the author
J.W. Bouchard
25 books187 followersJ.W. Bouchard is the author of over twenty novels spanning horror, mystery, and science fiction. When he’s not writing stories that pull readers into the dark, the strange, and the unknown, he’s exploring them firsthand—spelunking underground or scuba diving below the surface.
In the past, he has been a grocery bagger, waiter, hearing aid consultant, promotional products salesman, telemarketer, janitor, security guard, law enforcement officer, treatment facility supervisor, healthcare fraud investigator, business manager, and serial entrepreneur. He is a licensed real estate broker and a formerly licensed private investigator.
His latest hobby is teaching his kids bad habits. He lives in Iowa.
In the past, he has been a grocery bagger, waiter, hearing aid consultant, promotional products salesman, telemarketer, janitor, security guard, law enforcement officer, treatment facility supervisor, healthcare fraud investigator, business manager, and serial entrepreneur. He is a licensed real estate broker and a formerly licensed private investigator.
His latest hobby is teaching his kids bad habits. He lives in Iowa.
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February 16, 2012
This is a good little story built on the character rather than the setting. It has the potential to develop into a longer story and like "Vector" it left me wanting more.
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