The Risks of Dead Reckoning

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by Felicia Watson


  Naiche rocked her head back and forth, considering the question. “Maybe not in five years but in six or seven, when this guy….” She patted her abdomen, “...is in school. Tal and Pop are both stationed Earth-side now, so by then I could think about taking a shipboard post.”

  “I hope so. I’d really love the chance to serve side-by-side with you again.”

  “I believe it’ll happen – one way or another.” Naiche looked around at the room full of friends and family. “If life has taught me one thing – and let’s face it, it hasn’t taught me much more than that….” Over Con’s chuckles, she continued, “…it’s that as long as you’re still breathing, there will be plenty of chances coming your way. The trick is being smart enough to grab the right ones.”

  Chiricahua Glossary

  Bik’ehgo’iindáń - the Creator

  Ka dish day – until we meet again

  N’daa – stranger, enemy, non-Apache people

  Shimáá – my mother

  Shichú – my grandmother

  Tsiͅłkizhéne ndé – foolish ones/people

  Choctaw Glossary

  Mafo – grandfather

  Pokni – grandmother

  Other Exquisite Fiction from

  D. X. Varos, Ltd.

  Chad Bordes

  The Ruination of Dylan Forbes

  (April 2021)

  Therese Doucet

  The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment

  Samuel Ebeid

  The heiress of Egypt

  The Queen of Egypt

  G. P. Gottlieb

  Battered

  Smothered

  Phillip Otts:

  A Storm Before the War

  The Soul of a Stranger

  Erika Rummel

  The Inquisitor’s Niece

  The Road to Gesualdo

  J. M. Stephen

  Nod

  Into the Fairy Forest

  Rise of the Hidden Prince

  Claryn Vaile

  Ghost Tour

  Felicia Watson

  Where the Allegheny Meets the Monongahela

  We Have Met the Enemy

  Spooky Action at a Distance

  Daniel A. Willis

  Immortal Betrayal

  Immortal Duplicity

  Immortal Revelation

  Prophecy of the Awakening

  Farhi and the Crystal Dome

  Victoria II

 

 

 


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