Filler image? Oh come on, think of that as the image you'd put on your book's cover. That's no filler, that's what sells the book :)

Novel is 40,000 words and up? what is it when you have 164,000 words?

Suggestion to the membership for stories that are too long for the gallery. Post a teaser, then a link to the full thing. Need a place to put the full thing? set up a briefcase folder on yahoo (it's free) and put it in there then post the link for the file in the folder.