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Submitted to Contest #163
Marion Thrace was a scholar, assistant to one of the world’s top authorities on science and technology. She, by her own estimation, belonged in a library or a lecture hall. She had no business being curled up behind a car, surrounded by the thunder of gunfire as a small war erupted around her. The car shuddered as bullets hit the engine block. The tires wheezed air from a dozen holes. I should not be here! She and Doctor Lawrence Reisser had started the day on a skyliner, eating breakfast, chatting with a pompous ambas...
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