I'm really, really not happy with this title, but it was all I could come up with at the time. [EDIT (16/3/2012) This story was originally called Seeing is Believing — like I said, I wasn't happy with the title. This is the "cracking title" I allude to below. And, hey, you can't really go wrong with an Eliot quote, can you?] I think the story as a whole illustrates the problems I currently have with sustaining a structured narrative. Still, I managed to get in a few digs at a former employer, along with the names of a couple of friends (because naming characters is another one of my not strong suits). One day I'd like to revisit the Holmes and Watkins partnership, possibly in something novel-length. I have a cracking title worked out for that one.
EDIT (29/5/2011) — To my eternal shame, I've never read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", so it wasn't until I visited the British Library's Out of this World exhibition that I discovered that it too featured a computer intelligence named HOLMES. How embarrassing. Still, at least we know where whoever named the Home Office system really got its name from.
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