Carry Precious Cargo

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Mark Klinger

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Opportunity

Gay & Lesbian

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Synopsis
Young Joshua Siegel has recently graduated from art school. He's working two dead end jobs while waiting to make a break as an animator when he meets Benji, a handsome though somewhat evasive young man. As the two's relationship blossoms, Benji tells Joshua that he's an astronaut. Joshua is forced to decide if the time apart and the constant fear for Benji's safety is worth it. During Benji's first mission to the International Space Station, disaster strikes. Joshua is stuck on the ground unable to help as the man he loves is trapped on a space station that is slowly falling out of orbit. When Benji's colleague that Joshua hates the most is selected to lead the rescue team, Joshua is caught between a rock and a hard place; needing Nathan to succeed and save Benji, but also having a desire to see him humiliated. When zero hour hits and the Station de-orbits, who will have gotten off in time?

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Author Biography
Mark has been writing since an early age. From middle school on, he found his passion for the written word. He started imagining people who's backstories later became the basis for many of the characters that appear in his works. Though works of fiction, many readers familiar with Northeast Ohio, may be able to recognize the inspiration for many of the locations in Mark's works. With the publication of his debut novel, Opportunity, Mark is excited about the many other novels he's working on, all at different stages of development - seventeen at present, but who's counting. Mark has since left Ohio, settling with his husband in Philadelphia, where they reside with their dog and two cats.

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Carry Precious Cargo

When Benji's greatest dream comes to fruition, he leaves everyone he loves behind. But what other hazards wait in the vacuum of space?

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Opportunity

"GLS is go for Main Engine Start,” said the same Controller.
"Main Engine start. Three engines up and burning!"
A huge cloud of billowing white steam erupted as a wave of sound crossed the lagoon in front of Joshua and Rachel. It hit the onlooker's chests hard and a similar wave of vibrations ripped through the very Earth. Those who were watching could feel the power of Opportunity as her three Main Engines came alive, ready to slip the gravity binding it to the globe and carry those seven brave astronauts skyward. They could no longer see the Shuttle, a massive, puffy, white cloud obscuring it from their sight.
"3... 2... 1... Booster ignition! And... LIFTOFF of the Space Shuttle Opportunity on its historic, first mission to re-supply and re-crew the International Space Station as Opportunity takes the first openly gay astronaut to the stars. And the vehicle has cleared the tower."
Joshua and Rachel held each other tightly, watching as suddenly, the point of the orange fuel tank and white solid rocket boosters pierced through the cloud. Then the Orbiter itself, as the whole, enormously powerful rocket stack blazed a trail skyward. The ground ceased its quaking, but the hard-hitting chest thumps continued.
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