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A Pair Of Shorts
Paperback
Publisher: Robert Dutson
Published: Nov 11 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Pair of Shorts consists of two short stories, Crackers on the Half Shell and Under Butterscotch Skies.
Crackers on the Half Shell is a comedic/sarcastic look at how two individuals with little in common and divided by virtue of one being A New England Swamp Yankee and the other a Florida Cracker, manage to work together. Their shared animosity stands in the way until they realize they can work a Narragansett Bay shell fishing business much better if they bury the hatchet first, and preferably not in one another's' skulls.
Under Butterscotch Skies is a fine example of old-style H G Wells/Robert Heinlein science fiction writing meeting up with futuristic astronauts guiding the first mission to Mars in 2075. The captain and crew were resigned to an uneventful mission with the intention of collecting geologic samples and once liquid water samples, which might contain traces of ancient single cell organisms when Mars was a warmer, wetter planet. What the astronauts discover was not in anyone's playbook and sets the scientific world on its ear. How did complex life forms survive the loss of Mars' atmosphere and frigid temperatures?
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