Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy

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Lewis and Judy Campbell, Michelle Walker, Stan Berezovsky, Sharifah Williams, Andreas Gustafsson, Christopher Smyth, Amanda Layton, Kim Turner, Ronald Richter

The space station Belvaille was not the most corrupt city in the galaxy, but we liked to think we were in the top five.

My job here was as a negotiator and general purpose goon. At the moment I was running late for an assignment to help settle a business disagreement. If I arrived too late, the interested parties would take it upon themselves to resolve their differences and things might get a bit gory.

I currently stood at the edge of the elevated railway. The train, in typical Belvaille fashion, had broken down and left me stranded. I was in the warehouse district by the space port. There were squat, metal, box-like buildings packed tightly all around me. Like a very unimaginative architect had gone mild when designing our city.

It was a five-block walk to the nearest stairs or a fifty-foot plunge straight down to the gray metal sidewalk.

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