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Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 3: 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.

“Singing seagulls! Let’s get going. I’ve got to see what kind of a place you cats have whipped up for yourselves here on this red space rock.”

Trudith waited in the outer office of the campaign headquarters.  She expected that when Alistair finished his conversation with the Election Office, he would come out and tell her the plan, but it didn’t work that way.  Instead, Alistair slinked out, his tail dragging almost on the floor.  He was already wearing his jacket as if ready to leave, and he looked completely dispirited.  Trudith knew better than to ask, “What’s the plan?” but, she did ask, “How’d the request for a recount go?” Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 3: Earth”

Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 2: The Asteroid Belt

by Mary E. Lowd

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

“…since her body couldn’t fly home to her brother, zipping through space on careless wings in the effortless way her imagination could, Kipper had to accept the reality of her situation. She was stuck on this waterlogged bottle of oxo-agua that passed for a spaceship.”

Although it only took Trudith’s message seconds to reach the Deep Sky Anchor station in Earth orbit and would take another ten minutes to cross the space between there and the Jolly Barracuda, Kipper wouldn’t receive it for two weeks.  The Jolly Barracuda flew incommunicado, her flight plans unlogged.  Captain Cod felt it was more piratical that way. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 2: The Asteroid Belt”

Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 1: Earth

by Mary E. Lowd

An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly.  If you’d prefer to read in e-book or paperback form, learn more here.  Or if you want, jump back to book one or skip ahead to the next chapter.

“There wasn’t a glass ceiling keeping them down; no, the ceiling above cats was plenty visible with lovely murals drawn all over it.”

Trudith watched the orange cats nervously.  Although she was larger than them and undeniably stronger, Trudith saw Alistair — a skinny, ginger tabby — as her alpha dog, and Alistair’s sister Petra was a complete wildcard.  Petra wreaked havoc on any sane sense of hierarchy that Trudith could work out.  Yesterday, Petra took orders like the rest of them, but, now, when Alistair needed their support the most, Petra had turned on him. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 1: Earth”