Tibor woke with a start. “Oh no!” he exclaimed aloud to no one in particular as he was alone in bed at the time. It was six in the morning. Hurriedly he got dressed and headed out from his New London hotel room. Tibor was from Canada and there was no time on this stop-over to get back there so he had been put up in the Brannigan for the duration. It was a good hotel though not one he would have chosen himself due to the high cost. A Slider crewman’s wage did not reflect the importance of the work they were doing for mankind nor the dangers.

Chris sez, "Mercedes Lackey's agent, who also represents a 'persuasive little gnome' named Cory Doctorow, has been talked around to the Creative Commons point of view. Hence, Misty has announced she is going to permit fanfic as long as it is released under a Creative Commons license (presumably a noncommercial one, though she does not explicitly spell this out on the site)."

BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/19/mercedes-lackey-embr.html

PIECES OF FILTH
948 words by Stanley Lieber

'86
1070 words by Stanley Lieber

MOUNTAINS OF WHITE
734 words by Stanley Lieber

THE PUBLIC GREEN
2421 words by Stanley Lieber

VISUAL RHETORIC
2485 words by Stanley Lieber

Thomas Bright's disembodied head regarded me from the other side of the port hole.

I made a little waving gesture and he smiled.

"Don't just stand there," he said. "You've got to help me!"

JERRYMANDER FALLS
284 words by Stanley Lieber

ANALYSIS
249 words by Stanley Lieber

SPEED GRADING
838 words by Stanley Lieber