Some members of The Sword Review community have asked about Bill Snodgrass' written works, so here is a reprint as an example.  "My Name is Jim" first appeared in Amazing Journeys Magazine in 2004.  Editor Ed Knight also nominated it for The Fountain Award, an award for speculative fiction given by the Speculative Literature Foundation.
 

    Back when we first seriously started coming into space for the purposes of making money, they had a saying.  It was not unlike what they said about North America back in the day.  They called it the “land of opportunity” back then.  As for space, they told us it was the “frontier of equal opportunity.”  Yea, right.

    I guess the stalling of humanity’s tolerance for each other over the beginning of the 21st century lead to the need to make such a claim, but here we are, decades past the first economically successful space venture and not much seems to have changed.

    I should know.  Before patching my helmet mic into the transcriber and linking through to this journal to record these thoughts, I suppose I was the latest beneficiary of what the “frontier of equal opportunity” has to offer.

    Since I am recording this, obviously, I am still alive.  For now, anyway.  But, the “equal opportunity” treatment I have enjoyed of late bodes no promise for my future.

    When I came over to the Rock Jumper from my former mining ship, I knew it would be a tough transition.  Everyone knows that being a subterraner and being a surfacer is like oil and water.  Best not to mix them.