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Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 22: The Great Red Spot

by Mary E. Lowd

An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly.  If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.

“We can’t hide out here singing about penguins until the Jolly Barracuda gets back. We’ll have company long before then.”

The entire ship wasn’t transparent, Kipper realized.  The room with the airlock where Trugger and Kipper had emerged from their disguise boxes had opaque ceilings.  The room with the octopus tank did too, as well as several of the hallways.  For all Kipper knew, she was slumped against one of the opaque parts of the ship right now.  Her tired body wanted to believe, but her paranoid cat’s mind couldn’t stop thinking about how much the surface of the sail ship reminded her of the one-way mirrors she’d seen in cop shows. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 22: The Great Red Spot”

Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 21: Earth

by Mary E. Lowd

An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly.  If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.

“Trudith took her new mental workouts seriously…”

Many light minutes away, deep in the middle of night on her side of the planet, Trudith slaved away, scribbling mathematical figures and variables in a notebook.  She was working on solving physics equations that — by a bizarre coincidence — described the way light bent through transparent surfaces and bounced off of reflective ones, much like the surface Kipper had collapsed on, exhausted.  Like a one-way mirror it was transparent on one side and reflective on the other.  The equations defining it’s properties were fascinating. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 21: Earth”