The Tears of Laughter (short story)

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The Tears of Laughter was a 2006 Bernice Summerfield short story written by David N Smith and released in the anthology Collected Works.

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Anton tracks down his former lover Bev Tarrant, now the director of the Braxiatel Collection, to sell her a book previously banned by the Fifth Axis... The Tears of Laughter.

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  • Primeiros was a group of "feuding gangs and wannabe warlords". Anton's name cropped up on a Primeiros account suspected of laundering cash through the art world.
  • Galactopol was a space police force.
  • Anton previously worked for the Fifth Axis plundering artwork from the worlds they invaded.
  • Anton is expected to serve time on one of Galactopol's lunar penal colonies.

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