Explore "West o' Mars" by Charles L. Fontenay on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_Peache believed that behind / every man lies the influence / of a woman. Influence, though, / can take odd forms...._
Of all the planets, Peache liked Mars best. Peache was a salesman, and his territory was the inhabited planets and moons. There were things he liked about each one, even Earth, but he particularly enjoyed the gentle gravity of Mars -- a gravity that made him feel as though he were flying when he walked in long, easy leaps, and yet didn't frighten him by letting him shoot halfway out to space.