The Universe's Sock Drawer
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Last published Mon, Aug 12, 2019
The following narrative details the actions of the most average man in the universe, an alien who's almost never noticed, and a bounty hunter who is never late. Through a series of events involving many miscommunications, organizations designed to handle miscommunications, organizations designed to handle organizations designed to handle miscommunications, telenovellas, teleportation, telekinesis, tilted houses, expensive spaceships, large reptiles, nonsense pseudoscience, universal constants, and a plan to kill the galaxy's most wanted man, they embark on a journey that will end pretty much exactly as you'd expect it would. "Oh dear."
Book One of "The Longest Distance Between Two Points"
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