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Losing Freight Update

My series Losing Freight has been rolling along. We just hit the end of Week 5, and the action is really heating up!

Losing Freight is really unique because there's a poll at the end of every page where you can vote on choices that affect the story. It's been a lot of fun to have people voting along!

New pages of the story go up each weekday at 5 PM PST, and polls remain open until noon PST the next day.

If you haven't been reading, here's a bit of a recap of what's happened so far to get you caught up.

Week 1: We're introduced to Tic Bolter, owner of a one-man shipping business called Bolter Freightage. In his ship, the Galactic Pelican (name chosen by reader poll), he travels from planet to planet delivering various goods and getting himself in trouble. We also meet Lady Libden, a retired opera singer and one of his clients. We learn that Tic has lost something he was supposed to deliver to Libden, an action figure (as chosen by reader poll).

Week 2: Tic brings on a passenger, Milly Leon, to earn a bit of extra money. It turns out she's looking for a little more than a ride: she may be trailing some trouble in her wake. But she's also worth a lot of money, so Tic fires up the Origami Engine (named by reader poll) and makes designs on that cash...

Week 3: Tic gives Milly a "Saucy Wench" to drink (named by reader poll), and Milly explains the "quest" she's on, searching for her parents, two space-time engineers (as chosen by reader poll) who disappeared many years ago.

Week 4: Tic and Milly arrive on Haddock, where Milly wants to look for her parents. Hoping he doesn't run in to any of the goons who work for Mr. Dunter, the client who sold the action figure Tic lost during delivery, Tic brings Milly to a pawn shop (where a reader poll sent them). Of course there's trouble!

Week 5: Tic's friend Haglyn helps Tic and Milly recover from their ordeal, which in Tic's case involves drinking some Saucy Wenches, but Milly isn't ready to sit back and think things over: she heads out to get some good snooping done! She pretends to be one of Mr. Dunter's secret admirers (a plan voted into action by readers), then runs off once she's inside Dunter's building to look for clues. The last thing Tic hears over his PAI (his futuristic smart phone equivalent) is the sound of her getting caught.

What happened to Milly, and what is Tic going to do next? Check in on Monday at 5 PM to get some answers! I hope you read (and vote) along. There's plenty more excitement to come, and lots more polls to vote in!