Starving Vultures
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| Starving Vultures | |
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| Story information | |
| Author | Joseph A. Cosgrove |
| Type | Short Story |
| Product | Shrapnel Issue 13 |
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| Universe Date | 11 April 2783 |
Starving Vultures is a short story by Joseph A. Cosgrove that was published in the thirteenth issue of Shrapnel.
Plot summary[edit]
Jim McCullough, a young kid of Bamburgh, wents to a restaurant and finds it being closed. After he began walking home, he is taken by Kate Mulligan, a young girl he felt attracted to. They talked about how their planet would be abandoned by all JumpShip trafic, and how it would fell into anarchy. After arriving at Jim's home, his family invites her to diner. While they eat a barbecue, the family talked Kate about a plan they had to buy ticketts offplanet. Their plan was to attack a Mercenary 'Mech, taking it down, steal one of their weapons and later sell it to pay their passage. Kate agrees, and the next day, they depart together. They found the Mercenary between a battle, and managed to down and shut down the 'Mech after puting it on fire. But Jim and Kate cannot let the man die burned alive, so while his family attempts to steal the weapon, they rescued the Mercenary. He then offers them to get them out offplanet, and both kids accept. By then, Jim's family wasn't visible, and they appears to have been captured and executed by the fighters. After stealing an abandoned truck, they go to the DropShip landing point, where they see it descending, and Jim swears Kate than they will start over, together.