@Daisy Liesel yep!

@Timor Birdman 𓃵 I dont think there's anything too dark for the group. As long as you include trigger warnings at the start :-)

@Lisa Karasek nice to hear :-)

Here's the original opening to "Defying Gravity". I've just been re-reading the novella and cringing. I'm almost tempted to un-publish it and re-write the whole thing. That might be an interesting project. There's parts that I still love, and I believe the story is quite unique, but it could be written a lot better . hmm... I wish I had more time :-( --- Triton One Outpost It’s dark out near the edge of the solar system. The sun is still the brightest star, but its light is not the burning yellow as seen from Earth. It’s a far-off white speck, offering no heat or comfort, except as a navigation point if a ship needed to return home to the inner system. It’s also very lonely out on the edge. By the year 2198 humanity has only just established a single presence this far out. “Triton One” was the optimistic name given to the station clinging to the icy surface of its namesake: the largest moon of Neptune. There’s a type of person drawn to that isolation. The irony is that it’s not the type of person anyone would want to be stuck inside a tin can with for years. But Triton One is a bit more than a tin can. A black carbon-fibre dome stretched tightly over a crater, its edges anchored into Triton’s surface by melting the ice and allowing it to refreeze over the anchor points. Dotted around the outside of the dome, the various science experiment modules and communication relays known as “pingers” called out to the Kuiper belt and beyond, to interstellar space. For the romantic at heart, Triton One persevered with humanity’s attempt to contact other life. For the militaristic at heart, it provided an early warning system if that life turned out to be hostile. For Lana Sumeti, the Triton One station provided the biggest delivery contract she’d ever taken on. The onboard AI brought her ship, the Liu Xin, into a tight orbit around the large moon. It had been many months since leaving the Delta V station in Saturn's orbit and the comforting buzz of the inner system. As each month went by, the various stations and waypoints slipped out of range and the lag time between transmissions made it impossible to have a smooth conversation with another human.

Congrats! 🙂