You're cute and fresh and wholesome, but science has a cure

[rolanni]

So, yesterday, I bought a new car.  It was an Unplanned Purchase in which a complicated combination of factors conspired to create a Perfect Moment to strike.  I am of mixed feelings regarding the whole situation.  On the one hand, I adored the little green Subaru Legacy; it was zippy and sweet-tempered; good in the rain, the sleet and the snow, and never, ever once let me down.  On the other hand, it was more than 15 years old.  The new car -- by which I mean, "new to me" -- is several generations younger.  It is apparently capable of doing things that I cannot, as yet, imagine.  It, too, is a Subaru Legacy, in color a cheerful bright blue; but Subaru Legacies have gotten taller in the intervening years -- not a bad thing; in fact, a feature.  It's roomier inside than the green Legacy, and!

. . .it has heated seats.

It also has very low miles; was apparently kept by its former owner in the lap of garaged luxury, and only allowed out on the road during the very finest and bug-free of spring days.

So.  I have a new car.

I ALSO HAVE, with Steve, a collection of our work to get into shape to send on to Madame the Editor realsoonnow, and!  I need your -- yes, your -- advice.

A common reader complaint regarding the contents of the first two Liaden Universe® Constellations was that they lacked an ABOUT THIS STORY at the top of each story.  Apparently, lots of people like those, so, to keep peace in the family, we're going to write an ABOUT THIS STORY for each of the twelve stories in Constellation Three.

And here's where we need your help.

What sorts of things do you want to know ABOUT THIS STORY?

Discuss.

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Today's title comes from "Brand New Girl," as performed by Julie Brown in Earth Girls are Easy.  Here's your link.

Comments

[gareth griffiths (from livejournal.com)]

Given that a short story can't explain the universe and background a quick approximate time helps the reader who is familiar with the universe get in sync. 'In which a young Daav... or sometime between the events in xxx and Plan B. Some are obviously out of any particular time - like the Moonhawk/Lute stories in which the order doesn't really matter. Personal author notes always welcome - 'while we were working on ... this story which didn't really fit in he novel insisted on being written...'

In short, as I think about it, whatever you are comfortable telling us. Where stories do fit in the mainline (like stories of Shan or Val Con youth it does helps to have them roughly placed).