Cherchez La Femme

A Stardrifter short story.

 

Cree "Oiler" Huunan, life-long spacer and liquid cargo handing specialist, is about to be sprung from jail, his mandatory forty-eight hours for public drunkenness being nearly up. But what awaits such a man, when he's lost everything...home, job, and the love of his life?

A short tale about having a place in the world, and knowing who and what that makes you.