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2/4/2019

10,000 Bones
by Joe Ollinger
Genre: Science Fiction

On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's Commerce Board has struggled to negotiate importation quotas to keep the population alive and growing.

Taryn Dare is a Collections Agent, a specialized detective tasked with finding black market calcium and recovering it, so that the Commerce Board can recycle it and distribute it as currency. Taryn is fueled by one goal: to save up enough currency units for a one-way ticket to a better world. But when a job recovering a human corpse uncovers a deadly conspiracy in the system, Taryn is drawn into an investigation that may threaten her life, and the very fabric of her society.

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In the middle of a pursuit, it’s easy not to think about what I’m chasing. Remembering it, reminding myself how it all works and why, connecting all the dots that add up to a picture of a society that needs someone to do what I do—that’s the hard part. That comes later. Right now, I am focused. I need to be as inescapable as the harsh realities that put me here. I’ve followed the busboy since he left the restaurant, first from a distance on my quickbike, then another three blocks on foot, into this crumbling, stripped-bare tenement in the Dust Pit. He’s glanced back at me twice. He sees me, sees my blue-and-black Collections Agent uniform. I’m closing in on him as he enters the stairwell, and the tension is palpable in his stiff, quick pace, in the sweat stains on his white shirt, in how tightly he’s gripping the to-go bag he’s carrying. So far he’s been smart enough not to break into a run. I should have stopped him sooner, but I wanted to see where he was going. He’s gone far enough.
Peeking into the stairwell, I don’t see an ambush, just the busboy’s feet hitting the stairs fast and light. I bolt after him.
By the sixth floor I’m closing in. At the seventh, he throws open the door for the hallway. And then I’m on him.
I lean a shoulder in and hammer him into the wall. He deflates and falls in a crumple, but he’s still clutching the to-go bag, trying to keep it and its precious contents away from me as he struggles to squirm free. I hit him with a deliberate but hard right elbow to the nose. There’s a crack, and his nostrils are smeared with blood.
The fight goes out of him. I whip a zip-cuff out of a pouch on my belt, slip one end over his wrist and the other over the door handle, and pull them tight.
Suddenly he’s not a fleeing criminal any longer, just another poor, malnourished kid who took a bad risk. Rising to my feet, I snatch the to-go bag away, open it up, and look inside. Just what I expected. The restaurant’s manager was right. The busboy was stealing.
Inside the bag are little gray bones. Probably from chickens, or maybe ducks.
Money.

Joe Ollinger grew up in a small swamp town in Florida. After graduating from USC, he worked for several years as a reader and story analyst for Academy Award Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone. Currently residing in Los Angeles, he was a semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting. He works as an attorney when he's not writing.

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34 Comments

Janet W.

2/4/2019 06:59:46 am

Unique cover! Sounds like a very interesting read!

Rita Wray

2/4/2019 12:14:34 pm

Sounds like a good read.

Calvin

2/4/2019 12:41:09 pm

Interesting bizarre title, enough to give reason for me to read into the syp

wendy hutton

2/4/2019 03:10:49 pm

love the title, really caught my attention, book sounds great, thanks

Debbie P

2/4/2019 03:37:41 pm

This book sounds like a very intriguing read.

Sherry

2/4/2019 05:34:12 pm

This sounds like a very interesting book.

Marisela Zuniga

2/4/2019 07:13:25 pm

This sounds really interesting!

Ellie Wright

2/4/2019 08:08:52 pm

This sounds like a great book. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Victoria

2/4/2019 08:24:49 pm

Sounds like a good book!

Mary Cloud

2/4/2019 08:54:04 pm

No questions - the cover is nice

Dale Wilken

2/4/2019 11:26:56 pm

Sounds like a really great read.

James Robert

2/5/2019 02:54:12 am

Thank you for sharing your book with us and for the giveaway as well.

Kelly Nicholson

2/5/2019 09:23:21 am

(Won't finish term)

i like the setting sun,but worry about those bones

sherry fundin link

2/5/2019 01:41:59 pm

looks good

heather

2/5/2019 03:24:01 pm

I like the cover and it sounds like a great book.

Heather D

2/6/2019 10:31:30 am

Calcium as currency is a new one to me. Sounds interesting.

lynn clayton

2/6/2019 07:20:30 pm

THIS LOOKS LIKE A GREAT READ THANK YOU

Paula

2/7/2019 07:10:01 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

Bea LaRocca

2/8/2019 06:28:41 am

An intriguing synopsis and excerpt! This sounds like an awesome read.

Wendy Jensen

2/8/2019 09:12:22 am

Great looking book cover.

Kathy Cozzarelli

2/8/2019 08:49:12 pm

The bright sun on the cover leaves an impression. I like it.

Serge B

2/9/2019 02:51:01 pm

Nice artistic cover, took me a sec to see the bones

Jimette ross

2/11/2019 03:14:46 pm

Think the cover is cool, sounds intriguing

June S.

2/12/2019 03:30:58 pm

I would like to read this book.

Lavender P.

2/19/2019 08:03:31 am

10,000 Bones ...Calcium --haha I get it! :D
What drew you to science fiction?

Denise Higgins

2/21/2019 01:16:18 am

Love the cover

Ann Fantom

2/23/2019 06:40:18 pm

I like the cover. Very simple but eye catching

Mood Reader

2/27/2019 03:35:40 pm

Sounds like a good read. :)

shannon zeidan

2/27/2019 04:18:25 pm

This cover is definitely eye catching. It sounds like it will be a great one to add to my to- read list.

Chelle

2/28/2019 07:01:42 pm

Wow Sounds intriguing. Love the aimple cover--gets to the point without a lot of business. Good luck!

Daniel M

2/28/2019 08:14:48 pm

like the cover

Grace Henley

3/2/2019 06:38:03 pm

The Cover is very interesting, stands out from other covers.

Renee Collins

3/4/2019 08:40:17 pm

Really sounds interesting. Th aks for the chance.

Jerry Marquardt

3/4/2019 11:11:34 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including 10,000 Bones, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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by Joe Ollinger
Genre: Science Fiction

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