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Traveling to Mars #4. Published by Ablaze Publishing, 11222 SE Main St. #22906 Portland, OR 97269. TRAVELING TO MARS, created by Mark Russell and Roberto “Dakar” Meli © 2022 Arancia Studio s.n.c., Mark Russell. All rights reserved. Ablaze TM & © 2022 ABLAZE, LLC. All rights reserved. For the English edition: © 2022 ABLAZE, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Ablaze and its logo TM & © 2022 Ablaze, LLC. All Rights Reserved. All names, characters, events, and locales in this publication are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), events or places, without satiric intent is coincidental. No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means (digital or print) without the written permission of Ablaze Publishing except for review purposes. Printed in Canada. For advertising email: info@ablazepublishing.com

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Your ex-wife is here ge ing pre ed for the co -link.

The way we left things… we , it wasn’t g d. But she’s sti the love of my life, Dr. Rubens.

And not just because she’s the only one who ever loved me.

You excited, Roy?

To be honest, I never thought I’d have this o ortunity.

Most of which is, frankly, disturbing.

in fact, it’s kind of weird that anything exists at a .

I never thought I’d get the chance to say g dbye. So this f ls like a miracle to me.

it is a miracle, you know.

Technica y speaking… everything is.

Dr. Rubens sure knows a lot about science.

He said that the Big Bang instantly spewed an almost infinite and equal number of particles into being, which had to be traumatic for them."

But the very moment they were born, the matter and antimatter particles started pairing up, pulverizing each other comfortably back into non-existence.

For all the Big Bang knew, it was just a night burp in the eternal sleep of nothingness.

And these one-in-a-billion survivors were left adrift in the new and terrifying realm we call existence…

They looked around in vain for antimatter particles with which to collide themselves back into non-existence, but finding none, they began clinging to each other instead.

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