I have a couple of things I want to write about but first on my list is to keep the pledge I made to finish the story I was writing over 10 years ago and finially publish how it ends.
The story is called Space Flight 704. BUT before you click on that you might want to wait!
First, I formatted the posts to do specific text effects in my previous site iteration. I intend to fix them, and would hold off until that’s done, but well that’s how we got here isn’t it? So later chapters will look and behave weirdly, such as this:
I'm sorry I really will clean it up soon
So as unhappy as I am that it’s in that state, maybe by posting it you can see I mean to make it good again.
In my defence, I still think a post that switches timelines as you read is fun, but it makes it a mess to read. And seriously everyone, I absolutely adore this story because it’s got time travel, and a thick skulled hero called Rex Havoc, and dumb space weapons, and evil villains with evil lairs, and betrayal, and mayhem!
I wondered about posting the chapters from the start on the fediverse, one day at a time for about 100 days. The posts are ready to go to do so too, but the fediverse software out there makes my head ache when I think about self hosting it and I don’t know which instance will give me scheduled posts and markdown. The recommendations I’ve had are for glitch-soc and misskey forks, but I’ll need to find a healthy and pleasant instance.
That all said, if you’re not put off and you still want to read, the latest chapter is up at Space Flight 704, Chapter 72: For the First Time, and the whole series starts at the beginning at the link above. The formatting goes off the rails at chapter 11.
I hope you can enjoy it like I enjoyed writing it, and like some of my friends at the time 10 years ago seemed to enjoy it.
