Blood and Years: Mouse and Snake, #13

By Meyari McFarland

Leigh squatted down, letting the bamboo around her hide her from view. Last damned thing she wanted to do was deal with Kagiso Novak but the twerp wouldn't stop stalking her. He kept trapping her places and staring at her, talking about how he wanted to fuck her.

Hiding didn't solve anything. Smacking him one when he hurt Leigh's best friend Darby's feelings got them thrown off the space station, which wasn't much better.

But it set in chain a series of encounters that swept Leigh away from the blood and fear that had controlled her life for years. Blood and Years is a story of growth, change and standing firm that will stick with you when you close the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MDR Publishing
• Release date: Jul 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393754565

Meyari McFarland

Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from adventures appropriate to children to erotica but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Meyari has been married for twenty years and has no children or pets. She lives in the Puget Sound, WA and enjoys the fog, rain and cool weather that are typical here. When vacation times come, she and her husband usually go somewhere warm like Hawaii or they go on their own adventures to Japan and other far away countries. Her life has included jobs ranging from cleaning motel rooms, food service, receptionist, building and editing digital maps, auditing and document control.

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Blood and Years

Blood and Years

A Mouse and Snake SF Story

Meyari McFarland

MDR Publishing

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Contents

Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

1. Kagiso Novak

2. Meztli Spijker

3. Young Abbate

4. Cande Winter

5. Chi Korrapati

Author's Note: Clash of Lines

1. Chance Encounter

2. Battle Worthy

Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

Afterword

Author Bio

Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

Day Hunt on the Final Oblivion

Day of Joy

Immortal Sky

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A New Path

Following the Trail

Crafting Home

Finding a Way

Go Between

Like Arrows of Fate

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Out of Disaster

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The Shores of Twilight Bay

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Coming Together

Following the Beacon

The Solace of Her Clan

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Copyright ©2019 by Mary Raichle

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Print ISBN: 978-1-64309-061-0

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This story is dedicated to Cathy, for all the wrong reasons. I'm so glad I'm away from you forever.

1. Kagiso Novak

Leigh squatted down, letting the bamboo around her hide her from view. Her calves burned from the stretch. Almost instantly her thighs started trembling. A tiny adjustment, feet moving wider, then a second, and it was like her legs went 'oh' and relaxed. Stunningly, it was a pretty darn stable position. Almost comfortable if, you know, she wasn't hiding the bamboo to escape Kagiso Novak, her least favorite person on the station.

At least Kagiso wasn't likely to start shoving his way into the shrubbery. He was one of those third-generation station dwellers who'd never once in his entire life been on an actual planet. He wouldn't know what to do with natural insects and non-mass-produced dirt if someone held a blaster to his head.

Ridiculous twerp. He kept talking about how he liked substantial women, ones with meat on their bones but damn if he didn't just stare at her tits every time he trapped her somewhere. 'Substantial', her fat ass. One of these days she was going to haul off and clock him one even if it would get her in trouble with the station authorities.

That was the very first thing Leigh's one friend Darby had said when they started working together.

I know you're from Old Earth, Darby had said soft and quiet so no one would overhear them or at least no one would admit to overhearing because of that weird pretending that there was privacy when there was none thing that station dwellers had. Station Master Cohen is very serious about keeping the peace. He doesn't allow any fighting whatsoever.

Leigh snorted. She carefully shifted her head just enough that she could peer through a tiny gap in the bamboo. Kagiso stood in the middle of the walkway, glaring at the plants surround him as if he expected them to attack him. His skin suit showed not just his bony frame but also the weird hollow in his chest where his congenital birth defect had nearly crushed his heart before he was born. If she was Kagiso, she wouldn't worn anything that made it so obvious but hey, Kagiso seemed to think everyone would admire him for surviving when his own body tried to kill him.

That was, arguably, the weirdest thing about people born on the stations versus those born on Earth. On Earth, admitting you had a birth defect or genetic flaw was enough to get you banned, shunned, forced out of society and all but driven off the planet. Here? Nobody looked sideways at you for it, even if you bragged about it. So strange.

Kagiso looked Leigh's way, eyes narrowing. She bit her lip, all her