Plastic Smile (Russell's Attic Book 4) (36 page)

Rio walked over like nothing was awkward at all and pulled up a chair himself. I tried to mirror him. If nothing else, I still trusted Rio.

And I sat straight, with more bravado than I felt, even if a telepath could see right through it.

“I’m here,” I said to Simon. “So. What happens now?”

THE END

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Fiction by SL Huang

The Russell’s Attic Series

Novels

• Zero Sum Game
  
• Half Life
  
• Root of Unity
  
• Plastic Smile
  
• Golden Mean
  – coming in 2017
  

Short Stories

• Rio Adopts a Puppy
  
• Ladies’ Day Out
  

Other Works

• Hunting Monsters
  [Book Smugglers Publishing]
  
• Fighting Demons
  [Book Smugglers Publishing]
  

Acknowledgments

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• My sister and critique partner. I don’t know how other writers operate without a You in their lives. It must be very hard.
  
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• David Wilson, for his expert linguistics and dialect help. Especially considering how busy you are—you are so brilliant and so generous.
  
• The Barnyard, as always, for everything.
  
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• My online author community—my friends and colleagues and editors; the people who cheer me on or offer a helping hand on Twitter, Absolute Write, and Codex; all the amazing folk I’ve met who’ve made writing the furthest thing from a solitary pursuit.
  
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• And finally, all the readers who are sticking with me through the series and making it possible for me to write off-the-wall books about an action mathematician. Thank you all!
  

About the Author

SL Huang
majored in mathematics at MIT. The program did not include training to become a superpowered assassin-type. Sadly.

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