Whiskey and Starshine — Erica Hayes

A short space opera romance from the author of Dragonfly.Allie Fivestars is an indentured servant at the Starshine Saloon, a seedy spacer's bar on a crumbling station deep in the galactic badlands, where the only law is a brutal pirate gang called the Syndicate. They control her with a cruel chip implant that dulls her emotions and suppresses all memories of the woman she once was. Allie has no past, no future beyond Syndicate servitude, no way to escape.Until one night, a cool dark stranger walks into the Starshine, and memory stirs in Allie's damaged heart…An 8000-word science fiction romance story.