This week at Satellite there's a new comic series opening; 'Amerika: Nightlands'. An ordinery girl in a very bad world finds her life turned upside down. Over at Orbit there's a Solo story, a Salesman, a farmr daughter, but you haven't heard this one before...

Samples below and both should be up by late tomorrow,

Enjoy!

The Salesman

...Avery passed an hour in contemplation before the small door set into the main one creaked open. He rose up as if his sleep had been disturbed and saw Lisa standing there in a nightdress that was long and floaty without concealing all that much in the process. Avery kept his tone casual, “Lisa what brings you out here?”

            “Well Mistier Grant you were saying you sell jewellery and I have a few dollars saved up. Daddy never lets me go shopping so…” She spread her hands in a hopeful gesture.

            Avery smiled, “You know I was thinking that some of my collection would suit you down to the ground, in fact there is one piece that I thought would be perfect for you so I separated it out, just in case.” From his pocket he produced a chain with a medallion dangling from it. The medallion was made up of fine gold wire wound into an intricate geometric pattern that almost looked like letters but not those of the English alphabet.

            That didn’t bother Lisa; she was just entranced by the intricate beauty of the thing, “would you like to try it on? I mean only if you really want to.”

            “Oh yes.” Lisa responded excitedly.

            With the girl acting of her own free will Avery made his way behind her and lowered the pendant over head and fastened the clasp before letting it settle into her pert cleavage. He walked around to face Lisa once more and saw a vacant, distant look on her face, “I’m sure it looks lovely on you Lisa but I can’t see it properly because of that nightdress of yours. Why don’t you take it off?”...