Most people come to the Lamp Post Motel to hide out, shack up and party down. Some find it a cheap getaway from Tucson's merciless summer heat. And a few tattered souls are there because they've stumbled and there's nowhere else to fall.

Elmo Skinner was a loner who lost everything, and bought the Lamp Post Motel from the ashes. He turned the motel into an automation project, and added hidden cameras to keep a little too close an eye on his clientèle.

Meanwhile, 2000 years in the future, a couple of grad students from Saturn's University of the Rings sneak through a hole in time to the Lamp Post Motel for sexual anthropology field research. They send Elmo mind-hopping on the ride of his life.

The author
Joe Gold is a journalist, technology marketer, and content writer in San Francisco, a longstanding member of the National Writers Union. More novels are in the works.