Lee Skidmore

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“Let There Be Life” by Lee Skidmore

Submitted to Contest #158

Jennett screamed as the thin bones in her forearm snapped. The servo-suited mugger had grabbed her too hard in his excitement. With his other hand, he snatched her bag, ripping it painfully from her. Jennett screamed again as he suddenly let go of her broken arm. She hit the cold, wet concrete hard. Protectively, she curled her defenseless little body around her crushed limb, and sobbed as the freezing rain rattled around her. "You're sure this is going to work?" said Jennett to the man standing behind the lab-coated woman that stood smili...

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Radio Shack service technician, analog and digital systems, back in it's glory days. Self employed Biomedical equipment technician for 20 years, just retired. Have a website since 1996: scifiarchive.com, which I've ignored to long. Getting ready to fix it up. Anne and I have a self-sustaining yard. No watering, no fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides. We try to recycle everything one way or another. As a minor, lived in France and Germany and traveled around Europe. Snow skier and enjoy roller blades. Trained in Taekwondo for 3 years.