First off, I want to give a massive "THANK YOU!!!!" to everyone who has sought out, enjoyed, favourited, reviewed, promoted, said nice things about and otherwise positively absorbed "A Bid For Freedom". It was a huge pleasure to produce, I couldn't have hoped for a more talented crew to help create it, and it fills me with pride to see that it's retained a respectable score while acquiring new fans on a weekly basis! There's always an audience for original entertainment!

If things have seemed a bit quiet on my side of things, it's because I've been working on a variety of different projects. One of them is coming close to completion.

I'm putting the finishing touches to a new piece of (hopefully creative) writing.
A sci-fi comedy journey called "The Gliese Club" (Gliese being a "catalogue" of nearby stars and Glee Clubs being those performing choir groups everyone's raving about stateside).

I submitted the story to the NG Writing Anthology back when gumOnShoe was running it, and it met with his approval! Since then, I've taken over the reins and am mad keen to get the Anthology stocked up with high-calibre authors so we can get all our great stories published!

As the story is now part of the Anthology, I will not be making it available on-line.
However, I will provide a few excerpts to give you an idea of what to expect.

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THE GLIESE CLUB (excerpt 1)

A panoply of Pleiades parodies sat roasting on the panoramic tarmac of outer space.
Warm coils of starlight twined from their iridescent centers towards the outskirts of their universe, illuminating the way for the newcomers.
They lay in wait - they'd had eons of practice in awaiting great change.
As the hope in their hearths began to dim,
a single wish fulfilled itself on the cusp of the horizon.
...
A miniscule vomit-hued speck with a V8 engine parted the galactic curtain...
...and promptly joined polite society.

(excerpt 2)

Bracing themselves against the chilled whip of an orphaned rainstorm milling through the depths of space, they ran banshee-bleating with baggage aloft towards the inviting doors of the motel.
Puddles be damned!
Socks soaking up celestial spittle, the breeze's bitter bite billowing through their briefs and thawing out old thoughts of thermal underwear unwisely left behind...
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Hope that's a good teaser for you!

Cheers for stopping by! :)