YOU FAMILY HISTORY IS NOT COMPLICATED. THIS IS COMPLICATED:  They Lived in Infamy.

SOMETIMES I THINK THAT I’M NOT SO MUCH A WRITER, AS A THING WRITING HAPPENS THROUGH:   The Stars in the Sky – Free, complete Short Story.

I mean one minute I’m writing along and the next minute a Spatine appears. What the heck is a Spatine? Eight hours later I have a short story and just as much writing in notes on what Spatines are as a branch of the Space Force of Britannia. Also my head hurts. I’d just very much like to know why me.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

YES, NEXT QUESTION? Were the late ’80s and early 1990s “the best time in recent years to be alive?”