Azad and his brother Mikar are about to become very rich men...provided the mob doesn't come for their money right away and the gigawatts of electricity they're playing with don't fry them. All they have to do is go where no human can survive and make a trade with aliens they've never met. Azad might be more optimistic about their chances if he'd had time for a trial run.

Greg M. Hall has over a dozen stories and two novels online and in print. Though no single genre can contain him, he's got a soft spot in his heart for Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy with dark elements. After living on Maui and in Southern California, he got sick of the mild weather and moved home to eastern Nebraska, where he lives with his wife, a bunch of kids, and second pet tortoise--the first one ran away.