Feef's House

By Doranna Durgin

"Durgin has a remarkable gift for inventing unusual characters doing incredible things."
--Kliatt

Now available from the author, Feef's House is a re-released science fiction story originally published in the DAW anthology Space, Inc—a collection of stories about the careers of tomorrow. [Included in The Heart of Dog anthology]

Feef is a smelly, insecure little creature who calls the Toklaat Space Station home. Shadia is a tough, independent itinerant worker who calls no place home—until the day Feef needs help...and offers her something priceless in return.

Award-winning author Doranna Durgin has over 30 published novels (MMPB, trade, and hardcover) and another 19 short pieces.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Doranna Durgin
• Release date: Oct 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465900296

Doranna Durgin

Doranna Durgin spent her childhood filling notebooks first with stories and art, then with novels. After obtaining a degree in wildlife illustration and environmental education, she spent a number of years deep in the Appalachian Mountains. When she emerged, it was as a writer who found herself irrevocably tied to the natural world and its creatures - and with a new touchstone to the rugged spirit that helped settle the area, which she instills in her characters. Dun Lady's Jess, Doranna's first published fantasy novel, received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award for the best first book in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres; she now has fifteen novels of eclectic genres on the shelves and more on the way. Most recently, she's leaped gleefully into the world of action-romance. When she's not writing, Doranna builds author web sites, wanders around outside with a camera and works with horses and dogs - currently, she's teaching agility classes. There's a Lipizzan in her backyard, a mountain looming outside her office window, a pack of agility dogs romping in the house and a laptop sitting on her desk - and that's just the way she likes it.

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FEEF'S HOUSE

Published by Blue Hound Visions at Smashwords

Cover by Doranna Durgin

Copyright © Doranna Durgin 2011

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Feef's House first published in Space, Inc, ed. Julie E. Czerneda, 2003

This story is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously—and any resemblance to actual persons, business establishments, events, or locales is purely coincidental.

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Feef's House

by Doranna Durgin

The interact screen stared sternly at Shadia, showing her a form full of questions to which she had no answer. To which no duster would have an answer. Local personal reference. No chance of that. It was why she'd chosen the temp form.

Commonly known as the duster form, but only if you said it with a sneer.

Local address. Wherever she landed on any given night.

Last posting. Three weeks Sol-ward on Possita IV.

Shadia scanned the form with the contempt of a duster for the mag-footed perms and then, recalling that she sat in front of an interact screen connected to Toklaat Station's temp job placement system, hastily schooled her expression to something more neutral. Jobs no one wants, jobs with no guarantee of security. The first she was used to; the second suited her. She didn't want to be here still in the first place and she certainly didn't want to tie herself to work or community.

There. There was an empty form-line she could fill. She manipulated the interface with absent ease.

Instantly, a woman's face filled the hitherto blank square in the upper left of the screen. "You had a terdog? A real