Magnet

It's 2037. I'm Mike Williams, but you can call me 'Magnet'. Everyone else does. It's short for 'Chick Magnet'. Good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. At age fifteen, my face picked a fight with the propeller of my family's boat, on a shoal near Broome, off Western Australia. It was an accident, but, needless to say, the propeller won.

Twelve years later, I was a not-so-ruggedly-handsome fighter pilot assigned to the TFR Sydney. Not the Captain, or flight leader, or anything similarly exciting. Nobody special, just one mostly-unmemorable pilot among the many nameless, faceless masses.

I'm Magnet. This is the beginning of my story.

A 5500 word story in the Lacuna universe, set during the events of Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi but suitable to read as a stand-alone story.

Parts of the Lacuna universe:

Magnet

Magnet: Special Mission

Magnet: Marauder

Magnet: Scarecrow (new release!)

Magnet Omnibus I (new release!)

Imperfect

Faith

The Lacuna series:

Lacuna

Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi

Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion

Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity

Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity

Lacuna: The Requiem of Steel

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