Starfall Ranch: A Lesbian Sci-Fi Romance by California Dawes

Author:California Dawes [Dawes, California]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

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The too-quiet loneliness rushed back in the wake of the screen door slamming carelessly against the frame. Shy scrambled for her headphones and pulled up a playlist that she hoped would be sufficiently rowdy enough to banish all thoughts of Thisbe from her head.

The sky was dusty gold, an effect of the rising sun hitting the glimmering curve of Bel on the far horizon, and every leaf drifting in the breeze seemed to shimmer in that gilded light. The autumn morning held a sweet quality to it; a rich ripeness in the air that carried the crisp perfume of apples and sun-warmed grasses. Shy drove her truck slowly down the dirt paths of the ranch, feeling a fierce surge of protectiveness in her heart.

Starfall wasn’t even a decade old and already the financial powers-that-be were creeping in, encroaching, determined to turn Sirona into a smaller version of Earth in all its fucked-up glory. That was the trap, of course. She’d known it when she’d read the ad, when she’d signed the papers that bound her to the new world, when she’d hammered in the last nail of the sign at the gates.

“This is just the Devil, come to collect his due, I suppose,” she said aloud over her music. She wasn’t religious, but the old metaphor seemed apt in the moment. “Well fuck the Devil, and fuck the Havers, and fuck me for a fool for thinking I could just walk away from all that bullshit and live a peaceful life.”

She saw a glint of metal in the ditch along the side of the road and pulled over to collect the bot. Hopping out of the truck, Shy turned the volume up on her headphones and let the waves of janglepop synth wash over her for the rest of her work.

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