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The Junk Drawer

COZY SCI-FI • BOOK 1 OF THE JUNK DRAWER SERIES

Marco Reyes was a line cook going nowhere — burnt out, recently divorced, making grilled cheese at a gas station FoodMart. Then he got abducted by aliens.

Now he’s the cargo handler on the Junk Drawer, a salvage ship held together with adhesive polymer and collective denial. The crew eats protein cubes — nutritionally complete, experientially bankrupt. The galaxy solved the food problem centuries ago and lost everything worth eating in the process.

Marco has eleven alien spices, a reprogrammed replicator, and the stubborn conviction that eating should be more than a chore. He’s going to remind an entire galaxy what food is for — one meal at a time.

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