Gone Into Night
A new installment - marking the end of Part One of a projected four - will be posted shortly.
*EDIT: Not anymore. It's back to "The Queen's Courtesan" with alternate title "Space Lesbians!" and yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. Here is the new primary site for the story, as of 2007:
http://asher813.typepad.com/fiction/