High Stakes

Originally published free on Darwin's Evolution website

Freedom and the ability to earn a living are being strangled in the old world. All the landstates try to control every aspect of their citizens' lives while taxing them at exorbitant rates. Freedom and riches beckon from the independent seacities, but immigration is tightly controlled. Cassandra Reis will do anything for a visa. Anything. Even single-handedly take down a rogue seacity.

A short story by award winning author Sarah A. Hoyt, set in the universe of Prometheus Award winning novel Darkship Thieves.