It's Life, Jim - not that we know it

Dear me, another Andromeda slushpile update and still 'Other Intelligent Life' languishes in round 1. Perhaps its length is intimidating and the readers keep putting it at the bottom of the pile.

Rolled out 1,300 words on Commune this morning and I'm expecting at least another 500 on the way home today. Churned out a phenomenal 2,200 yesterday! Things are really cooking. Not so with Loaded, which keeps being shunted down the priority line. Perhaps this weekend...