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Authors: Peter Stier Jr.

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-Froward Morfoni

I CLIMBED
up the stairs and unlocked the door to my apartment. I walked in and set the groceries on the counter.

“Hi there,” Mona said, from behind her easel.

“I remember you!” I joked. I always said this to Mona when coming home.

“I remember you, too!” Mona winked.

“Damn, it’s hot!” I opened the fridge, grabbed a pitcher of lemonade, poured a glass and gulped it back.

Mona peered out from behind her painting and smiled. “That’s why I’m painting something cool.”

I walked over to Mona, massaged her shoulders and checked out her painting: a picture from the point of view of a female, her bare legs extending out onto a lounge chair. She is holding hands with a male in a lounge chair next to her, facing a swimming pool that is located on the surface of the moon. The sky is black and they are watching the marvelous earth in the background like an oceanic sunset.

I gave her a thumbs-up and kissed her on the head.

“Colonel West called,” she said.

“What the hell did that weirdo want?”

“He just said, ‘Tell Eddie Bikaver he is a hero.’”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it. Then he hung up.”

I shrugged and briefly contemplated what kind of psychological operation that asshole was trying to pull on me.

“Oh, and some guy stopped by. He dropped off one of your notebooks. He said you left it in his ‘rig’.” She gestured over to the coffee table.

I looked and there was one of my red notebooks, with a sticky-note on the cover that read, “You’re welcome.”

“And EZ and Lisa called. Dinner and a movie?” Mona asked.

“Sure.” I opened the notebook and a torn-out page from a newspaper fell out. It was the movie section. On it was highlighted (in green) a movie; a classic:
The Rescuers.

Thanks, Woods.

PETER STIER JR.
is a mammal and glad the other mammals on the planet have not invented atomic weaponry—he thinks one species per planet might be enough. He is a video editor by trade and has learned to appreciate lifting heavy objects repetitively in the same building with other people doing the same, as well as riding bikes that go nowhere, running up fake stairs and exerting considerable effort on other such contraptions. He lives in Los Angeles and loves his wife and dog.

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Planet Fever
, be sure to leave a review on Amazon. People like those. And I’ll be much obliged.

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MOM, DAD,
Simone, Winnie, friends, family, and Joshua Messiah – not sure why you did what you did for us but I thank you for doing it.

Table of Contents

Planet Fever

A Telepathic Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

The Following is the rest of Planet Fever

Chapter 80

Chapter 81

Chapter 82

Chapter 83

Chapter 84

Chapter 85

Chapter 86

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

Chapter 89

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 95

Pre-Epilogue

Epilogue

About the Author

Acknowledgements

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