Not to sound like I'm trying to take all the credit, but I'm pretty sure the idea of the Atomic Crater Ranch was originally mine, gotten while watching episodes of the X-Files back in the late 90's; it was located at a refurbished building on the Nevada Test Site, right next to a crater created by an underground nuclear explosion; the crater glowed red at night (red-light district--get it?). It was a throw-away idea of mine that others took up and embellished. I half-wrote and never completed a short story about how alien explorers landed their flying saucer next to the ranch and one of them negotiated with a lady there, but she didn't want to do him (his dick was healthy but was florescent green) so she price-walked him and so he and his buddies left in a big huff. They then filed an overly harsh report with the Galactic Patrol, claiming that the natives of Earth were hostile and had attacked them, and based on their fraudulent report the Galactic Council ruled Earth off-limits to all further contact with the rest of the galaxy.
The moral of this story? One negative report can have far-reaching ramifications ...
Be seeing you.
Bashful
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