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With the continued decline in score in the Las Amadas (and The Team) story, I'm having to rethink things in all of the stories in that universe. Some long-time readers of the universe appear to be less than happy with the road taken of late there, although I've put the next chapter of A New Tree into the queue to be posted tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm spending writing effort on an idea I had recently, and the first chapter of the first story in the Ridiculous Universe will be published on 8 January.

I got a bit ahead of myself with this story, mostly because I'm trying to balance four concurrent stories in the Beth Universe and not doing a perfect job of it. The gist is that I've had to add quite a bit to Chapter 12, which is uploaded and will be posted on the morning of the 31st (NYC time).

In the past few weeks, I've seen this story's rating drop from 7.96 to 7.57 despite only a very small number of new votes being added. That suggests that some readers have changed their votes negatively (unless those new votes were very negative). If my supposition is correct, I'd appreciate hearing what has caused readers to change their opinions. Please feel free to respond directly to me or leave a comment with the story.

The next four chapters (20-23) of Las Amadas and The Team are in the queue and are scheduled to post in the evenings (NYC time) of the 27th (Wednesday), 30th, 4th, and 7th. Unless I run into unexpected problems, I'll keep the posting schedule to Wednesday and Saturday of each week. On the 9th, the 11th chapter of Smythe's story will be posted. I have no clue how frequently _A New Tree_ will get subsequent installments, although I hope for at least a chapter weekly. If I can get the fourth chapter of the sequel to _Sandy_ written soon, I might post it four days after the queued chapter of _A New Tree_. I'd like to alternate those two stories between sequential chapters of LA and TT, but....

Thank you to all who provided feedback to my previous post (Grammarly and "couple"); I was pleasantly surprised by so many taking the time to respond. I received constructive arguments and explanations from many, the upshot of which is that Grammarly is correct, although a COUPLE OF respondents pointed out that the construction lacking the preposition is now colloquially accepted, so I might be justified in skipping the preposition in a character's speech.

To summarize a COUPLE OF responses, "couple" is a noun in the usage and the following noun (whether raisins or girls) should be part of a prepositional phrase describing "couple." The phrase is no different from others like "horn of plenty" or "hall of fame;" that is, neither "horn plenty" nor "hall fame" makes any sense.