Stan Morris
Young Adult
published 264 days ago
about 105996 words

Ho, I'm Sarah Talmaiz. I snuck out of the house last night to go joyriding on Reggardi's space yacht, but when it came down to crunch time, the jerk wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Luckily some space junk disabled the yacht before... you know. Then this guy, Pall Swiftcar fixed the yacht and offered to take me aboard his freighter if I "united" with him. Well, better him than Reggardi, I guess, because my face still hurts.
What's this, Pall? You're not going back to my home planet, Marl? You're heading to the Hoop? You can't be serious! So that's what "uniting" means? Are you crazy? I can't go to the Hoop with you, I have homework to turn in. I wanna go home!!

Chap. #	Title	# Words
1	Copyright 2012 by Stan Morris	6	Free Sample!
2	Author’s note: I may have misspelled words in this story. Ast, viver, twitch, rom, gnote, shirit and grabbit are not those. Hopefully their meanings will be obvious in the context you find them.	33	Free Sample!
3	Sarah’s Spaceship Adventure	3	Free Sample!
4	A tale from the world of Mackenzie’s Rock	13
5	Chapter One The Worth of a Woman	5682
6	“Sure. But you said you can’t right now. So maybe later…”	409
7	Chapter Two The Direction of the Market	5909
8	“What!” Sarah gasped. “You don’t mean…”	71
9	Chapter Three The Value of Work	4209
10	“Ho, Talmaiz.” The Hedman acknowledged her with a nod.	2038
11	Chapter Four The Cost of Silence	1586
12	“Well…”	4409
13	Chapter Five The Next Sales Stop	106
14	“The Sailing Fat Lady has a lot of secret talents,” she remarked	1710
15	“Uh… well…”	4390
16	Chapter Six A Business Dispute	6176
17	Chapter Seven A Cold Close Call	7009
18	Chapter Eight The Price of Freedom	6230
19	Chapter Nine The Great Mall of Silica	6056
20	Chapter Ten Supplies and Demands	6
21	Sarah stared at her. “You were kissing Pall?”	7126
22	I don’t pretend I know a lot	29
23	But I see that it makes you happy	27
24	So I stay by your side and wait to see	41
25	Chapter Eleven The Measures of a Man	3588
26	“Sarah…”	3689
27	Chapter Twelve Mackenzie’s Rock	6014
28	Chapter Thirteen A Big Deal	5834
29	Chapter Fourteen The Assets of Half Shell	5609
30	Hastily Sarah tried to explain. “What I meant was, uh…”	386
31	Chapter Fifteen Due Diligence	6369
32	Chapter Sixteen Acceptable Conditions	7085
33	Chapter Seventeen Sarah’s Spaceship Adventure	4106
34	The End	42