Well, it’s ready for release. The Story, or at least the part of it that I both consider to be finished and able to stand on it’s own. I intend this to be ultimately part of a larger story, and I will edit it as such (some of the exposition would fit better elsewhere).

Anyways.

Express Elevator is set in the year 2073, where there’s just been a terrible accident above Io. People are screaming and things are exploding. Read it, enjoy it. Flame me for the song and dance number with buxom space bimbos, love me for the gratuitous (yet strangely touching) Martian lesbian sex scene.

Watch! Full-on antenna on antenna alien love.

…wait, that’s the sequel. Christ, just read it. I’m releasing this under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license. This is to say you are free to alter and redistribute this work, so long as you do not charge for access or remove the original attribution to me as the author. As such I’ve also uploaded the source TEX file for easy alteration.

You can grab the TEX file here.

Feedback is absolutely welcome, either on this thread or by email to me. Work is still ongoing, I’m constantly fixing typos, rewriting sections, fixing grammar and the like.

Additional credit goes to Mariah for nit-picking my grammar, Jen for nit-picking my spelling, Tef for advice on grammar and Mofidul asking for more space battles.

…but if you want truly interesting photos, you need to seek out people. With that in mind, I stepped out of the house to discover one of our fine local respresentatives causing a scene.

Heading into town after that, I finally bought a lens hood for my camera. Having worked in electrical retail for what’s heading towards seven years I could pretty much work out how much profit they made on that crappy little bit of plastic (50-80% margin), which made buying it all the more painful. Ah well, its already gone to good use on my camera. I took a lovely photo of the boats at the Waterside at an angle to the sun that would normally be all blown out:

Boats at the Waterside

Today’s crud to good ratio was 93:6, including the photo of Killer this morning. Here’s the rest:

Fecker

Last Daisies

Waterside Sunset

Spiderweb