The Sure Thing

ADULT CONTENT Blind chance presented Doc Tolliver with a chance to make a fantastic amount of money ferrying some rich socialite college girls home from Mars. A meteor shower holed the Marsopolis dome, and the locals invoked the emergency protocols -- which meant that non-residents had to leave immediately or be expelled. The twenty young socialites from the United States on Earth had no ride -- their passenger liner was disabled by the same shower -- so they had to find another way off Mars. Doc could write his own ticket -- as could his colleagues, the other free traders in port. But Doc's ship wasn't a passenger liner, and Doc did without sex regularly, like most guys out in the great beyond. The idea of being cooped up on a small ship with a couple of decorative but snooty socialites didn't appeal. Instead, Doc went looking for something else... a sure thing.