Author: marylowd

Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 27: Jupiter System

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.

“…Kipper could make out the shapes of domes and buildings in the pattern of bright and shadow — a city in this bleak landscape of ice, millions of miles from feline-kind’s original terrestrial cradle…”

While the dogs of Trudith’s scramball team worked out their plans to elect a President Brighton, the newly minted Captain Brighton discovered the terrors of her own command inside the cramped, foreign vessel she could now call her own.

Spinning like a whirligig, the two winged ship Brighton’s Destiny disembarked from the Jolly Barracuda’s cargo bay.  After a few dizzying swerves, the vessel straightened into a slow arced course for Europa.  From inside, Kipper watched the Jolly Barracuda, the ship that had been her home for many months now, barrel past on a fast, straight course to the same destination. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 27: Jupiter System”