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Songs of Home

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A tale of fear versus hope, pain versus endurance, and a people lost in space, trying to find their way home.

[WINNER of wattpad scifi prompt April 2018: Beacon]

[Featured in NanoBytes: A Scifi Short Story Anthology]All Rights Reserved

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