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Firstly: Poppy fans, don't panic, part 49 is 50% complete, I'll have it up soon.

This story is a little fantasy riff on something that happened yesterday.
I was approached by a couple of mormon girls while I was in town waiting for my car to be serviced.
I had nothing to do, so instead of telling them to leave, I let them stay and chat.
They were interesting to talk with, and very pretty.

This is a little fantasy about what might have happened.
It's one of my conceive, write and publish in 12 hours stories, so apologies for any typos...

I seem to have upset someone who has never read my stories by announcing I've taken one down.
Just so you know, we don't get paid for hosting our stories here, so if an author decides to publish a story commercially, it has to come down from this site.
Kindred Spirits has been available for free for 8 years now, if I took it down while you were reading it, I apologise.

I seem to have upset someone who has never read my stories by announcing I've taken one down.
Just so you know, we don't get paid for hosting our stories here, so if an author decides to publish a story commercially, it has to come down from this site.
Kindred Spirits has been available for free for 8 years now, if I took it down while you were reading it, I apologise.

I'm so sorry for the delay with the (possibly final) part of Poppy season one.

I've been very busy at my day job, and also working flat out with a rewrite of Kindred Spirits (see other blog post).

I've a few weeks off work now, so in between doing the gardening, decorating etc, I'm going to write Poppy part 49.

The second bit of Poppy news is that I've listened to comments from a few of my regular correspondents, and I'm going to do a full PG rewrite of the story. This will take a lot of work, as the R-rated content is pretty central to the first third of the story, so that needs careful work, but we need to keep Poppy's sex work on the streets, without going into too much detail.

I'm going to enjoy the challenge...

I've had a couple of messages asking where Kindred Spirits has gone.
I took it down at the weekend as I've just completed a PG rewrite of the whole story, pitching it as the Young Adult story it should always have been.
I don't want two versions of the story online, so I took the original down.
Once I've had the new version proof read I'll pop it up on Bookapy.