Contracted

hree months of almost no-holds-barred slavery. The credits would get me out of the hole I'd dug for myself, and then I could book passage off this matriarchal world and work my way out

d as these core worlds will allow a male to be, a hydroponic technician with a gift for making rare things grow. Most of the men on the

n nations of Earth; just one strand in the complex web of human genetics we have out here. I bur

men too. They see themselves as the only rightful rulers of humankind, out here in the stars. The matriarchies have pushed equal societies right out to the fringes, outcompeting them o

dull material with no smart properties. Such luxuries were beyond me. I would have to turn over my personal data file and let the center see all my debts. Rent, fines for improper behavio

limits. I'd never been so scared or so helpless, and she'd treated me rough and cold, humiliating me at every step. I figured later she'd only

ariah here, shut out of the social and economic life of the planet until she changed her ways. Just because someone's a slave here, it doesn't mean they get treated coldly; human possessions

I got up and sat down, my mind a riot of possibilities, good and bad. The monorail glided smoothly to a stop and the doors hissed

ndustry this far from the center. It looked friendly and welcoming, but like anyone else I knew the real training would mostly happen a few clicks away in the holding compound, a fortre

nt past, left behind when we'd taken up genetic engineering. Even so, she was cute. I walked in – terracotta walls and cool air met me – and went over to her

or is there something else I

ke to sell myself for

Men were the inferiors of both. I can't say it bothered me once I got u

and then come back to me. I'll need to

let. It calculated my total debts and displayed them. I needed to construct a contract that would equal or exceed them – the balance

I've always been a sexual submissive, like most men since genetic engineering became common (and controlled by women). I'm heterosexual, like about half