Kin Ship

In the depths of space, a loving human mother celebrates a new baby in the family. The race? Spaceship.

Kingsley and Adelstein find themselves trapped within a pirate base, told to become pirates or suffer the consequences. Things turn strange when the pirate leader, Alterash, takes a liking to the intelligent ship, and decides to make it her own. Kingsley hopes for a sane and simple challenge for once, but the ABC books and baby rattles say otherwise...

A humorous science fiction novella, totalling around 38,000 words.