Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Fifty-Nine

The Road…

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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I’m not really a brave man; but, something had to be done…

Our System has three inhabited planets and six inhabited moons—seventy billion of us; but, things had gone down so far, so fast, that folks thought they could never go back up.

You see, Corporate Entities had taken over the rule of the continents of the planets and the plains of the moons.

There had been many massive environmental disasters as well as disasters in overcrowded space lanes—monst...