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Military & Action · fiction

Three Words in the Machine Record

“Stop! Don’t move your left leg!” Nine-year-old Owen Brooks froze halfway across the rehabilitation room. For one second, everything was exactly as it had been during dozens of therapy sessions before: sunlight spilling through the open garage door, the faint smell of machine oil from Rear Admiral Nathan Brooks’s...

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Genre
Military & Action
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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