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And that was pretty much it as far as the adventuring went. Old Barney had a conference with Joe Wainwright and his economic advisors. Minds were opened, asses were kicked, evil computer overlords were reprogrammed, and Ozyk got its water back.
Danny was in the doghouse with his dad for a while for taking the airship, but Mackenzie Senior was so impressed with Danny’s initiative and intelligence compared to the rest of his brothers (once Danny got off the kweesh his IQ went up considerably) that he sent him away to school in Grissom City. He and Ariel Wainwright hit it off, and Danny ended up a corporate vice president for Western Mountain Terraforming Corporation. Ariel, being the natural born daughter of Joe Wainwright and one of the few fertile females in her generation, eventually did her part for the balance of the sexes by providing Danny with eight daughters.
Old Barney died of a congenital heart condition about four years after his grand adventure, the same condition that had made him a poor cloning candidate to begin with. Turns out, he’d asked his buddy Mackenzie to donate some DNA to the cause instead. Neither of the men had apparently given any thought to the likely consequences of raising a little girl right next door to an entire houseful of boys without telling any of them that she was their sister, but things turned out pretty good anyway. Dorinda took over both the sawmill and Barney’s machine repair business. It wasn’t long before she had a reputation for being an even more impressive tech-wizard than her daddy had ever been. Over the years, she took it upon herself to teach all of her brothers’ children, cloned and natural-born, male and female, purple-haired and otherwise, how to disassemble and then reassemble a household appliance. Most times it even worked afterwards.
Chris S Hayes’s Bio & Links
Chris S. Hayes is a life-long reader of classic science fiction and romance. She works as a college health physician in Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A., where she lives with her wonderful husband, a very talented teenage daughter, and a skittish cat. Her first novel, a science fiction romance entitled Sikkiyn, was published in November 2014 by Solstice Publishing.
Her favorite pastimes are writing, reading, and chatting up the cosplayers at the conventions she attends. She is of the opinion that dressing up in costume makes life more enjoyable, and although she now considers herself a bit too old and out of shape to pull off the Mirror Universe Star Trek costume hidden in the back of her closet, she quite often dresses like a medieval princess just because.
https://www.chrisshayes.com/
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