Description
Standalone post-pandemic colonization novella
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Post-pandemic
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Survival
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Apprentice dependent
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Protection of Love
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Lost & Found
Scrapper
The first rule of transport: Stay with your rig.
The Story
Moekaff learns the teamster trade. The routes are dangerous and the vehicles need constant maintenance. As a result, teamsters don't always return, and after a year are presumed dead. There are rules for scavenging abandoned rigs.
Moekaff and Uzzon face the hazards of the routes together, returning as often as they can to Moekaff's family farm.
The Characters
Moekaff: child apprenticed to a teamster.
Uzzon: Teamster who was available to take Moekaff as an apprentice when the father did not return from the long trail.
The World
Castoe is a desert planet. It suffered a world-wide epidemic which reduced its population to such a point that it could no longer meet its export contracts.
The administration of the planet put extreme measures in place. All the men became teamsters to move goods to transport sites. All women handled the desert farms and production. Three-year-old male children were apprenticed when they reached the age of three. They are known as scrappers.
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When the census on the desert planet of Castoe arrives each year, all boys ages three and older are required to apprentice to desert teamsters.
Moekaff Graber begins his training as a scrapper with Uzzon, learning the trade of transporting goods across the sparsely-populated and challenging planet.
At three-years-old, he learns the basics, at six to read and navigate, by nine, the thirty-day rule is the line in the sand between him and everyone else broken by the Castoen desert and the demands of the census.
Read this novella of survival, loss, and recovery because the stakes are high on a desert world.
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