Short Story: All Them Bright Stars

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series City of Glass Outtakes

ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS
Liana Mir

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Summary: Kade is one of a crewful of scrappy orphans taken in by the captain of The Good Heart, a spaceship barely holding itself together. Anyone would want to leave, right? A short story of the Alliance

Author’s Note: Today is supposed to be the new post for City of Glass, but the next update is not yet ready due to an unexpected edit of chapter 1. Instead of defaulting on posting, I decided to share a short story from the world instead. I hope you enjoy!

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Her name was Case, short for Casey, even though Kade had told her a hundred times that Casey shouldn’t have a nickname.

“You know, scruffy, you can just shut up now.” She eyed him balefully, blue eyes bright through a badly cropped fall of shiny brown bangs. Her blue catsuit was dark as the backdrop to the stars glimmering through the viewer beside them and she had slung one of her oversized wrenches over one shoulder.

Kade handed her another bolt.

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