Hard Luck Hank: Suck My Cosmos

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The space station Belvaille was a democracy full of stupid and greedy citizens. Stupid and greedy citizens elect stupid and greedy politicians.

Or at least that’s what I liked to tell myself. Years ago I had been Governor and Secretary of City of Belvaille. Now I was nothing. I had been voted out of office by the people whose lives I’d saved countless times over countless years.

I was currently sitting in a restaurant, hoping to find evidence of a City Councilman doing something especially stupid and greedy.

I had been hired by his wife.

She came into my office about two weeks ago.

I owned a five-story structure on Belvaille. It was the only way I could afford to live on the space station. I leased out the top three floors, lived on the first, and had my office on the second. The money I got from renters was just about enough for me to make ends meet.

Just about.

I was scanning through the newspapers looking for employment. My last job had been to help a nobleman locate his missing daughter. I found she had eloped to her boyfriend’s place off-station. I was then hired to beat up said boyfriend and return the daughter.

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