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Telescope, Saxophone, and the Pilot's Death [MultiFormat]
eBook by Richard Paul Russo
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  A starship pilot who can no longer sail between the stars. A sculptor who can no longer create. The pilot a woman physically dying, and the sculptor a man emotionally dying. Together, they strive for life ... and love.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Terminal Visions, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2003
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [72 KB], eReader (PDB) [30 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [16 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [66 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [87 KB], hiebook (KML) [68 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [53 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [45 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 5034
Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
These things happened to me in 2138. Five years and several previous attempts to write about them have gone by, but it is only recently that I've more fully understood what they really meant to me, to my life, to my art.
I still live in the same apartment I lived in then. It's on the top floor, the fifth, of a brick and wood building. There are two large rooms, and a kitchen with a stained porcelain sink, cracked counter tile, and cold water from both taps. The recycler no longer works. Hot water does run in the bathroom, which has toilet, sink, and a small wall shower. I keep a garden on the balcony facing away from the launch fields, over the street. Rent is low because the port facilities--launch pads, repair sheds, maintenance hangars, warehousing units, gantries, terminal arms, subterranean rail systems--begin a block away; the noise level is extremely high, the air quality low. Still, the garden thrives.
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