My Space Settlement site is about to go away Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: My Space Settlement site is about to go away
A few years back I printed out one of Mike Combs stories and left it at my mother's place so that my brother-in-law, who had expressed an interest when I told him about the story, could pick it up the next time he was in, even if I wasn't there. My sister happened to see it and read it. A couple of days later I'm talking to her on the phone and, without knowing it, she pays me a huge complement.
"Hey, are you 'Mike Combs'?"
I was utterly puzzled by this. I recognized the name of course, but had forgotten that I'd left "If Not for the Fall" over there.
"You left this story over here, and it seems like the sort of thing you'd write about. It's pretty good. I wondered if you were using the name 'Mike Combs' for some reason."
I told her the truth, of course. It might've fun in the short run to have somebody think I could write that, but it wouldn't be right and the truth would come out eventually. I felt pretty good after that phone call. Still didn't finish a story of my own for years. Ah well.
I do hope it gets archived. I can't print out copies for everybody.