Dear readers, with me tonight is a young woman from the planet Sisyphus. As you may recall, Sisyphus is a particularly inhospitable world, and is home to a woman-only penal colony.
At seventeen years of age Nikki is obsessed about getting her gun to impress her mother, the director of the penal colony. For this she needs to be an adult, which – in her opinion – requires losing her virginity. The only way to do this is to lure and kidnap a man from a passing space ship, to ‘pick her cherry’, as it were.
She is here to tell us of her adventures, together with her adopted native brother.
Tell us about how you grew up.
If you ask Mah – that’s my mom – she’ll tell you I’m still not grown up. And I’m seventeen already! I mean, I earned my gun! Hard way, too, not like some other girls I could name.
Okay, but do tell us a little about where you grew up. What was it like in the colony?
You mean SisPenOne? It’s a penal colony. Same as every other penal colony in the Commonwealth, I guess. Well, except it’s all women. And Mah says Sisyphus got its name ‘cause the whole planet really is out to get you. But never bothered me… well, ‘cept for that time the toilet vacuum failed and a nosher got through and nipped out a chunk’a my butt. Got a really great scar from it. Wanna see? (She turns, loosening her pants)
No, no, that’s all right, we’ll take your word for it. Did you have any favourite toys as a child? Any cherished memories?
Toys? Oh, those fakey things you give little kids. Dolls and stuff, yeah? Saw some of those things in those social studies vids Mah made Sam and me study. Never needed any myself. Sam and me – Continue reading “Nikki Sotolongo (of Cherry Pickers by Bonnie Milani)”
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