Fleet and Fabricant

So her family may survive, Cora will embrace the burden of unimaginable power. But if she could change her history, and heal all wounds… would she?Cora has been avoiding home. She doesn't quite mean to, but it happens anyway. A lot of things have been weighing on her, as the world stands to change yet again, crawling inexorably out of the cold inconvenience of community subsistence living and back into the gentle, familiar embrace of industry. Factories are raised. Electricity is on the horizon. The fleet's glory will, some day, be reclaimed.Cora can't stop wondering how long until humans don't want to do the work anymore, and the age of the fabricant begins again.Now Cora returns home to keep an old promise, hope in her heart that she can still find her sanctuary among her lovers, and though her return comes with a strange coldness, she is greeted by Minerva: daughter of Sarah and Annalise, now a young woman eager to explore the world, and understand her long-absent mother.But all is not as it seems. Minerva has secrets of her own, a dark and fearful prophecy calling her to the bowels of the earth, and waiting there beneath the pale surface of humanity's new home is a final trial for the beleaguered dregs of human civilization: a trial to be faced by Cora alone. Kay F. Atkinson is a lover of good food, good movies, table top role playing games, and her wife. She lives in a hole in the ground, where she spends her time sequestered away with a PC, feverishly writing whatever comes next.

Ten years following the disaster aboard the starship Upon Silver Tides, the fleet has changed, and not for the better. Mortality makes the greedy desperate. Wealth begins to pool as those hungry for opportunity exploit the vulnerable to climb a once-ossified social hierarchy, while those who fall away from the gold rush with nothing to show for it become vicious, always in search of another victim upon which to inflict their anger.People who just want to live their lives are a perfect mark, in a world where anything but your soul can be stolen and sold back to you at a profit.People like Annalise Fletcher, and her wife, a fabricant called Sarah.But something is festering, as those with hungry eyes take freely from anyone weaker than themselves; something that will sweep the whole of the fleet away, and burn gilded castles to ash. The end of everything. Sarah and Annalise will be given the change they've been praying for, but they may not like the shape it takes.