Unpacking the Private Military Complex

David Isenberg

THE ZEROING LINE

"Two rules before you decide," he went on. "First: this isn't the colony. In the colony you can be a coward and just get beaten for it. Out there, if…

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THE SHELL GAME

The contract ran eighty-three pages. Buried on page forty-six, in the particular gray prose that…

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