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Like the title asks... The fact of how unbelievably great of a story "Island Mine" is truly.

I just finished re-reading that great work for the umpteenth time and it is just as great if not better each time I read it.

And of course, each time I read it I come up with more questions. If you want to get EXACT about it, there are a few mistakes in the story as in a typo or two as well as an errant word here or there. Not enough to stop you from reading.

"Island Mine" is the story I tell people I know to read. Not mine. But "Island Mine" is the one. Of course, I eventually get them around to mine but just like me, they like that one much more.

Does the Security AI Chief bond with Arman in Tahiti immediately, or does he wait a few days, weeks or even months before introducing himself to the man. How would Arman take the news? Would he act favorably to discovering Waylon's secret of the island?

I'd love to find out. But then again I don't want to find out. It could hurt a perfect story if all my questions are answered. So I won't ask Refusenik to answer them for me in a sequel.

Maybe just in a blog or perhaps a personal email just to me with a promise from me to never reveal the contents.

Nah. I think I'd like a sequel. Or at least a new story. Maybe that would be best. Or maybe Refusenik could figure out a way to get Cold Creek on the horn and get HIS lazy ass back to typing again!

Either way pisses me off that I can't write THAT well. And may never be able to do so. Fuck! Now I'm depressed and going to bed way too late and happy in the subtle fact that I'll be absolutely worthless tomorrow.

Tee Hee. Nighty Night, kiddos!

Okay. Here you go. Something simple.

The next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill is in the posting queue to come online. Sorry about the delay but life hits you between the eyes.

Thanks for all your messages. They ALL helped.

Please enjoy the new chapter and I'll get going on the next one.

-- Shinerdrinker

Hello there boys and girls!

Just a quick update. I have sent the next chapter of Mayhem in a Pill to the editors for them to completely gut and destroy with red slashes each one ragged and deep cuts as if serving as a stand-in for a deep, strong feeling of wanting to do the same to my bare chest. At least that's what I'm thinking whenever I look over the corrections.

I'm kidding... kind of.

So I guess to the couple dozen or so fans of Mayhem in a Pill out there, the next chapter should go up in a few days. It all depends on when my wonderful editors decide to clean a few hours off their schedule since I figure that the amount of time and work spent on this third grade - at best - level of writing.

So, I guess we have that to look forward to.

P.S. Just kidding those editors of mine are great and I know for a fact they wait at the computer patiently everyday ignoring the needs of their world around them and overcome religious fervor just for the opportunity to read my words a few days sooner than anyone else.

Yeah. I like that story better. I'll take it!

--Shinerdrinker

Hello, one and all. First I'd like to thank everyone and all their well wishes while I fight my way through this family trouble. I am through the toughest part of the trouble but I am still hurting a lot. But I can now get back to the regular minutia of the day to day living.

I did find a wonderful side effect of dealing with the pain. Since I had not even looked at the story for the last couple of weeks or so, I re-read what I had previously written of the next chapter.

Holy crap that was some shitty writing! I had written things that would have propelled the story by weeks of a storyline. While that itself isn't a bad thing, I didn't explain how the hell we got there. Downright bad writing. So I renamed the file and put it away to hopefully reuse some of it in future chapter.

So long story short, I've restarted the chapter tonight. But luckily I was able to get pretty far since the time off allowed me to pump up the fire of my wantto. (That's what I call the push and want to actually write.)

I've said before I don't count the words in my chapters. I actually prefer to count the pages in OpenOffice I used to make them. Each of my chapters is generally 12-15 pages long. Some are a little longer but most are in that range. Once I finished the re-writing tonight I'm already onto 8 pages. It is easily the most work I have completed in a single night ever since I started writing this story.

I'm actually fighting myself to not keep writing. I want to keep going but the typos are stacking up from lack of sleep. So I am forcing myself to stop for the night. But I have left little reminders in the chapter to make sure I can get restarted quickly when I wake up in the morning.

Hopefully, I do wake up in the morning.

Make sure you tell the people in your life that you love, that you really do. You might not be able to follow up on your tiny reminders when you do wake up.

Really bad day today. The loss of a parent is a terrible thing. Of course, it happens to everyone eventually but the loved ones left over have a lot of work to do to get past the feelings.

So today we have a funeral.

I'm hoping this weekend I have some time to work on Mayhem. I'll need to make sure I do. Yes, it is a good way to deal with grief.

Right up until I realize I also named the parents as my parents.

R.I.P. Juanita. I'll miss you for eternity and then I'll happily start over again.