Welcome folks. Please excuse me while I bore you with some background, or skip this drivel and head for the story. Watch out though, it’s LONG.
I had this one lonely idea for just one tiny piece of a story running around in my head for a while, and I posted a note on the Bulletin Board to try and hand this idea off to one of the established fanfic writers. I’d like to thank the following fantastic folks for giving me the necessary kick in the butt to start writing my own fiction: ChianaWannabe, ScapeArtist, Still_Waters, PKAmmoTroop, and JohnsKeedvaBBQ.
Somewhere along the way my orphan idea turned into a mammoth story. If anyone read my Silly Fic “Writers Block”, you might recognize a thin strand of truth running through it … the story got away from me and kept growing. Some of the fanfic writers have probably been through this already, but it was new to me. For the rest of you, the next time you are hatching baby chicks, and one turns out to be a budong, you’ll know how this feels.
I can’t begin to thank my two Beta-readers, ScapeArtist and Imloco2, enough. I hope they recover from this effort soon, and yes, I‘ll pay for glasses since your eyes have probably gone bad. They generously answered my call for volunteers (a call from a relative newbie), and they have been right beside me through the entire process. Aside from their keen eye for errors and good ear for getting the tone of the characters right, they were critical moral support for someone taking on a piece of work this large for the first time.
The idea of a dormant black hole is not the product of my warped imagination. Theoretical physics have begun to suggest that some black holes may go through dormant stages where their gravity well simply ceases to exert force. The finer intricacies are completely beyond me, so I hallucinated the rest of the details.
The single orphaned idea that grew into this monster? What if John’s immune system destroyed his translator microbes? So this story is about communication.
Hope you enjoy it. Here comes the first part.
Kernil Crash
Voices of Reason
by
KernilCrash
Kernil Crash (KernilCrash@yahoo.com)