The Universe's Sock Drawer
CallMeFishmael
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  • Parts 37
  • Time 2h 57m
CallMeFishmael
Ongoing, First published Dec 04, 2016
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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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End Of The Beginning

42 parts Ongoing Mature

We always thought that nature have a way of balancing things. What if it's not true ? what if it was something else ? *Contains Violence and profanity* Word Count " 1400- 3000 each chapter " Ongoing / Unedited The characters, names and likeness in this book are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Part 1 - Chapter 1 - 9 ( Present 1 ) Part 2 - Chapter 10 - 14 ( Past 1 ) Part 3 - Chapter 15 - 27 ( Present 2 ) Part 4 - Chapter 28 - 29 ( Past 2 ) Part 4B - Chapter 30 - 34 ( Future 1 )

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