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A note on the new story, You Have To Choose.

As those of you who follow my work probably already know by now, I'm a bit impulsive now and then. I also work on more than one project at the "same" time, meaning I work on whatever my muse is excited about at any given moment.

My muse got excited about this Halloween story, but she did it pretty late and then nature intervened in terms of me ripping out a bunch of carpet and replacing it with hardwood flooring. My back did not appreciate this and I lost a week of productive writing time while I was flat on my back avoiding moving more than I just had to.

This is not an excuse, but it did severely restrict the amount of time there was for review of the story when it finally got finished. Michelle did get a quick look at it (one day versus her normal week or more) but Andy, who has a life of his own, did not.

What I'm saying is that the quality they have spoiled you with may be somewhat lacking. Andy will read it when he gets time, and send me notes, so eventually anything wrong will get fixed.

This is why there's no end note on this story. I'm flying solo on this one. All I ask is that you give me a soft place to crash in if you notice problems.

Thanks for reading.
Bob

I'm going to post a new one for Halloween. It's a departure from my normal thing, but I wanted to stretch my fingers a bit. It's in the review process right now, but I'll post half of it on Monday the 30th and the rest on the 31st.

Since it will only be on the lists for two days, this is fair warning to everybody. Be sure to check the codes. You've never seen me use a bunch of them.

I must apologize to those people who I told something that turns out not to be true.

I told some of you that the Bravo version of Shooting (in) Hannah was twelve chapters long. It turns out that chapter twelve had chapters thirteen and fourteen folded into it. All the proofreading and editing is done with the story in one file. The last thing I do is break it up into chapters. In this case, I failed to pull 13 and 14 out of things and give them their own identity.

So when you read chapter twelve, it's not finished.

Sorry for the confusion.
Bob

I started posting version Bravo of Shooting (in) Hannah. If you read the Alpha version, it may seem familiar for the first few chapters. It moves faster than Alpha did, with less reluctance. But that's because it's heading for a completely different place. It's much longer and there are more characters. It isn't quite the pipe dream Alpha was.

I think that's all I'll say for now. This blog entry probably should have been a foreword, but I'd already posted the first two chapters by the time I figured that out.

Thanks for reading.
Bob

Since the sun will be eaten by an angry sky-dragon today, and the world will end, I decided to throw up a story that's ready to go.

I was so rattled about this that I reverted to habit and only put up two of the eight chapters. I actually meant to post the whole thing, what with how I won't get another chance, according to what was on the sign a homeless guy was waving at me the other day.

But it's a real pain in the behind to cancel a submission and start all over again so I'm going to take my chances and hope that the sky-dragon will puke the sun back up.

If it does, I'll post the rest of it this week.

Actually, you probably wouldn't have had time to read the whole thing before the world ended anyway. It's pretty slow, in my opinion.

Oh. I almost forgot. It's called Shooting (in) Hannah and version Bravo is ready to post, too. If the world doesn't end I'll post Bravo next week. It's twelve chapters long.

But I have to go now. The livestock are uneasy and the dog is howling. There's a popping noise coming from the direction of my crazy neighbor that might be gunfire.

I hope I see you tomorrow.

Bob