Monday morning and I’m still nude. Just before nine this morning, the first light began to appear in our dining room with its east-facing window. It’s another cold day, just slightly colder than yesterday. Though the calendar tells me that a new week started yesterday, in reality for almost everyone, it is Monday when a week starts. After all, both Saturday and Sunday are included in the term, week-end.
So, what is it about this Monday that suggests something new coming my way? This morning I received a message from the Irish Naturist Association requesting that I become a member of a short-story selection jury. Since I have no pressing engagements, other than finalising the print edition for Romance in the Nudist Colony, and continuing with the writing of my latest Naturist Novel, I answered in the affirmative.
The Irish Naturist Association had advertised its literary contest with entries due in by Christmas Day of 2020. It appears that I am to be a last-minute addition to the jury which is comprised of some notable personalities. How the Irish Naturist Association came across my name and my background as a writer and publisher, is an unknown. It is a new role for me, being on a jury charged with determining a winning piece of literature.
Now, back to my ongoing saga, a tale about aliens from the planet Azul [Azulians] who are being sent by the Interstellar United Federation to positively influence the political situation on the planet Earth with the objective of having the Earth become a member of the Federation. The story is complicated because the Azulians are blue-skinned [the word Azul is Spanish for blue] and the task is against Federation policy of non-involvement on planets which are not yet space-faring people and ready for alien contact.
I have reached a point in the story where the aliens are about to land on the planet, 18,500 words into the story. There is a level of complexity to the secretive task that suggests that this could be a very long story. The role of nudity should end up becoming significant in terms of conflict and political evolvement, as most alien races don’t have the same hang ups about nudity as is the norm on Earth.
I can’t tell you much more, as I don’t know much more. I can say that I am enjoying this tale immensely. Is it really science fiction? Is it really naturist fiction? Or is it more classical literature that explores the human psyche? Only time will reveal that to me, and eventually to you, the future readers of the story.