Suffering the ramifications of the events detailed in “On the Highway,” newlyweds Dan and Daisy separate. While he throws himself into his new job, she works at an edgy bar, doing what she loves. Both deal with fresh desires, while pining for what they’ve lost.
A Story in the Ridiculous Universe
Many authors have suggested effects of a skewed sex ratio (e.g., Planet Grayson, Honor Harrington opus, David Weber; A Brother's Price, Wen Spencer). This story is nothing at all like those. Daymon's life is ordinary until he is called to meet a Visitor. Is the gorgeous naked girl a figment of imagination? Daymon's planet has a ~20:1 female:male ratio, uses a metric clock (metric-timeDOTcom), and has an orbital period 1/8 longer than Earth's (ponder what that means for individuals' ages).
A fantasy story about a charlatan in a magical society who, though the use of fast-talking and deception, finds himself strewn about from one misadventure to the next. NOTE: This story is incomplete and will likely never be finished.
The most popular slogan in the post Civil War period was "Gone to Texas" or simply "GTT" because the promise of living in a free society without restrictions of too much government was too tempting to resist.