Being a 'difficult woman', Oklahoma farm-gal Mavis wasn't having much luck with the local dating pool. Her Pa signed her up to emigrate to newly terraformed Mars, because 'Mars needs women'. Maybe there she could find a good man to marry. But Mavis...
Thus, the story "Mars Needs Women" ends. Thanks much for following Mavis along on her Martian adventure. This was a fun tale to write. But as the epilogue suggested, she has a whole 'nother story, which is "The Phobos Transit Quilters Guild", where trouble finds her in Mars orbit.
These tales are actually part of the Paradise Story Series, which presently contains five sci-fi novellas, all written based on Open Novella Contest prompts, and all part of the same fictional universe. These are shown in chart form below. Each story can be read stand-alone, but there may be a few minor spoilers for those stories that come before.
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