So, I'd had these stories I'd written a while back, set in Shaddoth's 'Axeman' universe. I had three complete and a fourth one, well, maybe about half-done but I wasn't really working on them anymore. Jason 2, another Mike & Shirley story, the second half of "The First Command", I've got a lot of unfinished work.
But, the site administrator here got tired of my whining and created an "Axeman" universe for stories that other writers had come up with. Oh. Well, crap. I should post mine!
Now, the first three were DONE, but they weren't PROOFREAD. I hadn't been able to talk anyone into doing that kind of work. For free. So, I put the first one up. I got a lot of feedback. It doesn't look anywhere near as polished as the rest of my stories. Well, yeah, all of my old proofreaders are retired. Where'm I gonna get a new set?
Turns out, I can ask all those poor innocent readers who emailed me saying I mis-spelled supercalifragelisticexpialidocious. Ya know, you caught THIS, and I'm about to publish M2. You wanna see if you can find any mistakes in it?
Even though I didn't ask most of them until Saturday afternoon and I was planning on posting Chapter 1 at 8 Monday morning, I got answers back from four different 'volunteers' in time to fold all their corrections into the posted version. If M2 looks a little more polished than M1 did, well, it's their fault. I'll list all the proofreaders who helped at the end of the story, but the first four names are already set.
Oh, yeah. Chapter one of "Missile 2" is up.
-ZM