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Trash Planet Confidential: A Sapphic SF Legal Romance
Discover Trash Planet Confidential by Louisa Vidal, a steamy story where enemies-to-lovers high society lawyer Onyez clashes with savvy Vio.
Onyez thought she'd left her nemesis Vio behind when she went to practice law on a different planet. But then Vio shows up in Onyez's office with a request that she can't bring herself to refuse. Will these two lawyers manage to acquit themselves, or will this be a love trial?
From Trash Planet Confidential:
On the sixth anniversary of Vio’s arrival in San City, she was busy with the legal ramifications of some janitorial robots that had been reprogrammed to hijack shuttles. It was also the day Onyez Jones walked into her office and asked her to help dig up some trash. “Hello, Violaine. Is this a good time to talk?” Onyez looked impeccable, like she always had. Her black hair was tied in a neat set of twists that shone like lacquer, her suit all clean lines, skin tinted a fashionable leafy green, and around her impossibly long neck was a white scarf. Bright white. Breaking-the-laws-of-San-City-physics white. “No?” Vio threw out the response automatically, only adding the inflection of a question as it sunk in that Onyez — now the lead attorney for the most powerful company in this corner of the intergalactic union, easily the most famous lawyer on Albion10, and the one classmate Vio had never managed to out-argue — was standing in front of her.
Word count: 8,000
This story previously appeared in the Space Fruit Press anthology Binary Stars: Queer Sci-Fi Romance.
Onyez thought she'd left her nemesis Vio behind when she went to practice law on a different planet. But then Vio shows up in Onyez's office with a request that she can't bring herself to refuse. Will these two lawyers manage to acquit themselves, or will this be a love trial?
From Trash Planet Confidential:
On the sixth anniversary of Vio’s arrival in San City, she was busy with the legal ramifications of some janitorial robots that had been reprogrammed to hijack shuttles. It was also the day Onyez Jones walked into her office and asked her to help dig up some trash. “Hello, Violaine. Is this a good time to talk?” Onyez looked impeccable, like she always had. Her black hair was tied in a neat set of twists that shone like lacquer, her suit all clean lines, skin tinted a fashionable leafy green, and around her impossibly long neck was a white scarf. Bright white. Breaking-the-laws-of-San-City-physics white. “No?” Vio threw out the response automatically, only adding the inflection of a question as it sunk in that Onyez — now the lead attorney for the most powerful company in this corner of the intergalactic union, easily the most famous lawyer on Albion10, and the one classmate Vio had never managed to out-argue — was standing in front of her.
Word count: 8,000
This story previously appeared in the Space Fruit Press anthology Binary Stars: Queer Sci-Fi Romance.
33 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2023
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Louisa Vidal
4 books7 followersLouisa Vidal is a LGBTQ+ romance author, who hides her love of love stories behind her tea cup and battered laptop. She's travelled the world but is currently in the South East of England plotting global rainbow domination. She loves enemies-to-lovers, contemporary romance, sci-fi, noir, and is down bad for happy ever afters.
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November 2, 2023
This was so funny, and such a unique take on the "hot green girl in space"! I really loved the gritty, almost comic-noir set-up of the plot, and the romance between our two main characters was very much a reluctant-friends-to-lovers trope (at least on our protagonist's behalf) that is such a classic.
December 6, 2023
Due to personal reasons I'm finding the concept of space lawyers to be 1) hilarious 2) inevitable 3) and thanks to this story, HOT. 🥵
Wasn't sure what to expect from space lawyer lesbians but Louisa Vidal does a lot in a short amount of pages. The world building is unique, and I love the commentary on government corruption and looking out for your own community, and thriving in the refuse.
Also, see above re: hot. Loved the spicy scenes, and the characters were also well-rounded and memorable. Looking forward to more from Louisa Vidal. :)
Wasn't sure what to expect from space lawyer lesbians but Louisa Vidal does a lot in a short amount of pages. The world building is unique, and I love the commentary on government corruption and looking out for your own community, and thriving in the refuse.
Also, see above re: hot. Loved the spicy scenes, and the characters were also well-rounded and memorable. Looking forward to more from Louisa Vidal. :)
November 8, 2023
This story is what you would get if a legal procedural drama and that one Star Trek epsiode with the Orion dancing girl had a baby, with a side of class warfare and academic jealousy. I'll never understand how Louisa manages to make the minutiae of zoning and building codes enjoyable, but she does! Very fun, with characters you'll love to root for!
January 21, 2024
Gay lawyers in space! What more does one need? Not much, I think.
This story is funny and smart and very sexy. Excellent.
This story is funny and smart and very sexy. Excellent.
December 6, 2023
Sapphics in space, doing law, getting drunk, and having tiffs. This is a short noir-ish story that happens to happen in outer space. Class differences and old school competition have made Vio and Onyez enemies by default, but using the classic lesbian technique of drinking and having a yelling match in the street.
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