Old Man’s Adventure

Wesley Boone gave his company forty years. They gave him a fake gold watch.

Retired against his will and driving home through the worst storm Wisconsin can throw at him, he is fresh out of reasons to get up in the morning. Then a broken barricade stops him in his tracks. Something went over the edge of that ravine, and it’s still down there.

Wesley should call for help and drive on. He climbs down instead.

What he finds at the bottom talks. Right inside his head. It’s pushy, it’s snarky, and it has no intention of leaving. It also comes with one heck of an offer: adventure among the stars, lives to save, a chance to play the hero, and alien tech that could make his creaky old body feel thirty again. All that, plus a constant reminder that it would have preferred a younger human model.

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