Former Ten Stars combat pilot Rick Barrett is having a bad day. Not
only is he jobless and broke, in a seedy spaceport bar he has just been
forced into a winner-takes-all poker game with a homicidal cauliflower.
Salvation is at hand in the shapely form of Irish redhead Julie
Halloran, who has an unusual talent of her own. Julie has a proposition
for Rick that could end his financial worries at a stroke, though it
might also end up getting him killed. But is Julie keeping a few cards
hidden herself?
The Festival on Lyris Five is a fast-moving, hilarious, science-fiction
novella, where nothing is quite what it seems. The story is available in all popular e-book formats from Smashwords.
