A while ago I saw the article about several German scientists confirming that the Milky Way galaxy is circling a super-massive black hole, like a great cosmic toilet bowl being flushed. BBC News, December 9 2008. I’ve been reading a lot of hard science fiction lately, and this article has tickled the edges of several stories in my mind.

The last time I tried writing fiction was about 12 or 13 years ago, and those efforts were all fantasy. I ran across several of them while unpacking this fall. I think I’ll try a scan and OCR to see if I can get them digital again, just to try and save them for digital posterity. The softcopies are long gone by now. It was all written on a blazing fast custom built 486-50mgz using a DOS version of Word Perfect, and saved on 3 1/2″ floppies that have dissapeared years ago. Ahh the good old days.