The Lamp Post Motel
Summary: Grad students of the future comne to study sexual anthropology here in their past at a cheap motel at the butt end of Tucson, Arizona. They find motel owner Elmo Skinner, who watches his customers on hidden cameras. The experiment: drop Elmo's mind into the people he's watching. From the 2006 novel by Joe Gold, but with the explicit passages included.
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- Artist: Joe Gold
- Copyright: Some rights reserved, 2004-2005.
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Tucson's trashy temptress. Check in to the Lamp Post Motel,tacky and run down, and run by a sad and geeky man who prefers circuits to unpredictable people.
Alone with his machines. Elmo's dirty little secret: he watches his guests on hidden cameras.
Pilot error. A hotdog pilot doesn't quite make it to the runway.
Ashes. Elmo buries what little bit of a life he had managed to build.
Meanwhile, 2000 years in the future. Grad students at the University of the Rings at Saturn cope with academic pressures.
Travel planning to a garbage planet. A man in a bar makes an offer the students can't refuse.
On the beach at Puerto Penasco. Meet Thea Nikolas and her les friends, taking a break on the beach closest to Tucson.
Thea Nikolas sees what no one else can. A bubble dropped through a hole in time appears off the beach, but Thea can't find anyone else who can see it.
Loretta Lipps takes time off for a rescue. She's a professional woman who works out of the Lamp Post Motel, but when someone needs help, Loretta renders aid without a thought.
Gone. Thea's friends can't find her anywhere and have no idea what to do to get her back.
Heading for Tucson. It's four long hours back to Tucson and medical help, but Thea refuses.
Pulling up stakes. Out of options and with nothing else to do, Thea's friends head home in pained silence.
Lunch interrupted. Elmo is relaxing with his neighbor when Loretta arrives with an emergency.