“Oh, Rat, I’m sorry.”
Beep-beep-beep. Beep-beep-beep.
The warning alarm. Someone was coming!
Rat squeezed the jetpak control hard. A great belch of gas erupted. Her body jerked forward. The broken leg, with its heavy cast, was slower to accelerate. It lingered behind, stretching weak muscles backward.
A stab of pain. Rat lost her grip on the control and went flying in crazy zigzags. She yanked the useless leg in close to her body. The pain lessened. She could steer again. Without even needing to look, she aimed for the blue triangle. Twisting the control to maximum, she rocketed into the air vent.
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank all the members of the Monday night writers’ group for their invaluable critique and support; especially Jeanne Walsh for her attention to the fidelity of Rat’s voice, and Seth Wheeler for teaching me to run on a space station. Also, thanks to my editor, Regina Griffin, who loves Rat as much as I do, and my agent, Nancy Gallt, who persisted in handling Space Station Rat despite a certain aversion to rodents.
About the Author
Michael J. Daley’s career as an author has been inspired by a lifelong love of science, spaceships, and science fiction. He writes his stories on a solar-powered laptop in a five-foot-square tower room. This keeps him well acquainted with the cramped conditions in spaceships! When not traveling among the stars, Daley lives in Westminster, Vermont, with his wife, children’s author Jessie Haas.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Michael J. Daley
Cover design by Jesse Hayes
ISBN: 978-1-4976-3748-1
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