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I've been wrestling mightily with two big reports for work that have sapped my time and energy of late. While I've made progress on the next chapters of LA & TT, Sandy 25 years later, and Daymon in that time, the LA & TT chapter beat the others to the finished line and is now in the publication queue. I hope to get the next chapters of the other two stories published next week, but I can't guarantee it will happen.

I've uploaded a cast of characters and a short gazetteer of places into the publishing queue, which should be placed immediately before Chapter 1. It should be up sometime on the 26th (NYC time).

I just realized that I had forgotten I'd already named Daymon's mother when I began calling her Sally. I've just fixed that in the published chapters 1-2 and in chapter 3, which will be published Wednesday morning (NYC time). I once heard this statement somewhere, and agree with it: "It's Hell getting old."

As some will have noticed, I published the first two chapters of a new saga, Daymon, this morning. While most of those first two chapters presented lots of sex, some future chapters will have a higher percentage of the political and sci-fi aspects that will define the story. I hope to publish single chapters weekly, possibly on NYC Wednesdays.

I have come to some conclusions about Las Amadas and The Team, of which a few should now be obvious. I have jettisoned the idea of chapters being single-author contributions and returned to the date being the more-important definer of chapters. I have combined all entries from individual days into much larger chapters, with the chapter detailing the Saturday of the LA-and-TT time in the compound running over 50K words. Most chapters will not be that long. I have reposted all of the first five chapters but in that combined format. For the short-term future -- hopefully, the VERY short-term future, the already published chapters from 6 to 32 are repeats of the aggregated date-based chapters 1-5. The next chapter -- the new Chapter 6 -- will publish tomorrow, but will replace the old Chapter 6, so the story will not jump back into the top of stories on the SOL feed. However, with that publishing, I hope the SOL powers will remove chapters 7-32, and we'll all be on the same page and the story can continue forward.

However, about that forwardness: Some long-time readers of Beth have objected to the expanding scope of relationships obvious in LA and TT. Because of that, I moved LA and TT to my Ridiculous Universe, and the scope of relationships will expand, possibly to ridiculousness. That's why that universe exists. I'd appreciate long-time readers of Beth's story and its sequel who object to that expansion simply quit reading rather than re-rating the story.

Thanks for reading. --BF

Finally, I will be moving Emma Smythe's story into the LA and TT story at some point soon, so will end A New Tree at that point, hopefully with some sort of resolving event that will enable the story to stand on its own.

Readers, I write today to inform you that I'm moving three stories from the Beth Universe to my new Ridiculous Universe: A New Tree, Las Amadas and The Team [LA&TT; now without parentheses, again], and Sandy--25 (or so) Years Later. I am also in the process of, at the suggestion of at least one reader, aggregating all former chapters of Las Amadas and The Team from single days into single chapters, reducing the number of published chapters from 32 to five. That brings the putative sequel of Beth (the story) into synch with Beth (for the most part). However, with those three stories being catapulted into a different universe, this note also provides fair warning that LA&TT will drift from Beth's very strong focus on the LA to a wider focus; in time, a very much wider focus. Indeed, I am considering merging A New Tree with LA&TT, interdigitating the various authorial contributions by date/time; I have more thinking to do on that. The process of revamping the LA&TT chapters should be completed today (6 Jan; NYC date).