13. The Pirate's Lass, part 2 - a novella
This is part 2 of 3. See Episode 12 for Part 1.
The Pirate's Lass is a 30,000-word novella first collected in The Moon Panther: And 3 Other Stories of The Mongolian Book of the Sky.
Her greatest literary hero is a kickass, take-no-prisoners, seaborne scallywag who binds her breasts and slays devious figures while her bird parrots back lusty things the assassin has said during carnal pursuits. But for Penelope Humberton, while the idea of gunning down monstrous figures gets her heart pumping, her own ambitions are much safer: getting her bookshop and printing press off the ground, expanding…
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