Love During Seeding Time

By Kaysee Renee Robichaud

In the heart of La Verde Muerte lies Andromedia, a city under constant siege. Jorge is a Black Thumb, a killer of the unauthorized growths endangering the city. The jungle's alien plants are a relentless threat like no other. When Jorge meets Rose, the strange girl from out of his world, he gains a new perspective on the life that surrounds his city. The act of understanding has never been so thrilling.

With "Love During Seeding Time" Kaysee Renee Robichaud presents a sexy fable from the stars about cross pollination and pollen-tics quite unlike any other first contact tale. This is sensual science fantasy as only Kaysee can deliver, at once playful, thoughtful, entertaining and erotic.

"Love During Seeding Time" appeared in Only In the City anthology from Circlet Press. Approximately 7000 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Feb 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311807878

Kaysee Renee Robichaud

"Kaysee Renee Robichaud ... balances perfect amounts of ... eroticism and adventure." -- Julian van de Camp,Wings of Steam BlogKaysee Renee Robichaud has been publishing her erotica and romantic fiction since 2008, through such well known book pulishers as Circlet Press, Ravenous Romance, Cleis and Alyson Books. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including the Lambda Award finalist Women of the Bite, edited be Cecilia Tan. An audio version of her story "Adrift" appeared as episode 226 of the Nobilis podcast."Kaysee Renee Robichaud's [writing is] intense, nuanced ... poignant, [and] moving..." -- Sacci Green, Erotica RevealedKaysee Renee has lived all over the United States, but currently resides in southern Texas, where the winters are actually a lot like her childhood autumns. The summers, though, are pretty rough. She is eternally grateful for air conditioning, though a little sweat is good for the fiction."Kaysee Renee Robichaud [tells] a ... playful story, written in a breezy style." -- Jean Roberta, Erotica Revealed

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Love During Seeding Time

By: Kaysee Renee Robichaud

Love During Seeding Time

A slender, green finger thrust through one of the concrete walkway panels off Seventeenth Street, a vine searching for sunlight amidst the topless towers of Andromedia; Jorge paused for almost thirty seconds when he found this – photographing it, recording the dimensions, and uploading the data to the Department's server – before he bathed the growth in purifying flame. It crisped and curled, blackening into ashes. Mission accomplished, he tapped his helmet comm and announced, Seventeenth all clear.

Nice, Jorge. We've got a report of unauthorized growth on Eighteen and Drake.

Jorge took a hit from his temperature controlled atmo tank and wished for a cold drink. A cerveza would go down nice, just now.

The atmosphere across the planet was breathable but cloying. In the city itself, with all the asphalt and concrete and steel and glass, there was nowhere for the wet and triple digits temperatures to go, they clung to the streets. Walking required effort and breathing was a chore. The nitrogen-oxygen cocktail stuck in his throat like stale bread. The uniform was designed to wick sweat away, but there was nowhere for it to go. He glanced at his watch, saw it was 10:20 already. No one worked from noon to three, that was siesta time. Only fools would wander around outside.

He trudged to 18th Street, passing swarms of gnats clouding water pipe leakage puddles, and wondered about the emerald-black hell ringing the city. The Verde Muerte was the ugliest stretch of jungle on the entire planet, and yet its fertile soil was the one place where the largo trees grew, the single source of largo berries in this part of the galactic arm. Trees grown in lab environments lacked some mix of naturally occurring elements; the berries were serviceable in combating the effects of Gravity Withdrawal Deficiency but not even close to the strength of the wild grown ones. If mankind was to remain among the stars without clunky exoskeletons or ultimately debilitating steroids, it would