Cheryce Clayton
ASIN: B00OFEE5SA
Publisher: Six Point Press
Pages: 268
Kidnaped from Earth as a child, sold as a slave, discarded on an alien world as broken, Morgan is adopted by a Sansheren ruler and raised in a loving home. Now she finds herself desperately trying to hold onto her Sansheren identity while reconnecting with her human past.Obligations is at its heart a story about the myths of childhood and how they color Morgan's ability to relate to herself. It is a gender confused story about trying to live in one culture while relearning her humanity without losing herself. About being two-spirit and walking between worlds against a backdrop of Space Opera sci-fi that showcases the after effects of planetary war and manifest destiny.Originally written in 1994, "Obligations" speaks to the writer's struggle to find her science fiction voice after publishing romance books and was used as her primary writing sample during her career as a ghost writer.