The Red Barrens

"You have been found by this court to be a vagrant in violation of Proteus ordinance 2071-043, and will be remanded to civil authorities for placement." This pronouncement following her husband's death from Agent Purple exposure puts Mabel Jeffers on the colony's Edge, where she's forced to play her part in terraforming a resistant planet with that same Agent Purple. But there are things that are worse than death - things that could drive her over The Edge. Find out what they are – read "The Red Barrens."
"The Red Barrens is a short speculative fiction, and is also available in the collection "And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND."