Recovery Is Our Specialty

By K.G. McAbee

I'm Niky Chance. My partner Nohrah and I travel the spaceways providing one very special service: we recover things. So when a gur-ryll from Aldebaran Delta loses the last remaining segment of her dear, departed dad, we sign on to find what's left of him for her. It could take a broken limb or four--never ours, but often someone else's--but we'll get it done. I'm the brains, Nohrah's the muscle, and together we're unstoppable...at least we have been so far.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.G. McAbee
• Release date: Mar 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463090749

K.G. McAbee

K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, and some of them are honestly quite readable. She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She’s a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella recently received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest.

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Recovery Is Our Specialty

Copyright © K.G. McAbee 2020

Cover art: Frank R. Paul, pulp artist; this image is in public domain

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Recovery Is Our Specialty

K.G. McAbee

I was leaning against the bar in a tavern on the Street of the Elegant Stars, waiting for Nohrah to finish her shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other habitués and stalked over to me.

Girl, spelled 'gur-ryll', of course. The Zrili, inhabitants of Aldebaran Delta, are tri-gendered but not the same way as some other species. Still, a 'gur-ryll' equates to an immature female for them and for us, so I just generally go with 'girl' when in town.

The girl towered over my two meters by nearly another, and her multi-faceted eyes resembled the decorations on the tree in the corner. Yeah, tree. The Zrili have adopted a lot of our Terran habits and vices, including holiday traditions which make even less sense than they did to us a couple of