Kai and the Collector

By conventional standards, Kai has a mundane life as a contract laborer for Chara Corporation on the fringe world Verrin. But her life takes a dramatic turn when she's admitted into an obscure vaccine study that promises a hefty sum of credits for her participation...

Kai and the Collector is a short story in a Science Fiction Horror setting. It explores some of the cultural and economic realities of fringe worlds in the fictional Celeritas universe, and plants seeds for additional stories to come.