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After almost 4 years of waiting, finally wrote the final Act III of this attempt at writing a play with mostly dialogue and little narrative. I admit that I am weak in writing dialogue and that combined with dreadful ratings caused me to hesitate to finish this little 3 act play. It is unabashedly a mirror of the successful play with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor called "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf". I think I got more into the flow of things with the final act and hope readers will read with an open mind knowing my weakness in writing in this genre. I think there are also elements of "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" which if memory serves me correctly was a class B film done in a stage format and might have even been a play in the orignal script. You can vote on this one again Comments are welcome.

My total penname accounts number 17. This Harry Lime account is the oldest and the largest. I cut the stories off at 500. Currently, 478 of the 500 stories are still being read by readers. Total downloads on the Harry Lime account stand at about 2.8 Million. Incomplete stories number 71 but only 2 stories need to be updated as of today.The percentage of stories unfinished across the 1720 stories of content is 12% or 196 out of the 1720 total. My total downloads for all 17 pennames is slightly over 4 Million. I hope in the coming year to cut my unfinished stories to under 100 and to add 100 stories to the content. That would bring my unfinished stories percentage down below 10% which seems reasonable to me. My thanks to all readers who have stuck by with my stories despite my ups and downs in completing stories.

I am coming down the home stretch with only about 12 stories left to update out of the original 500 stories under the Harry Lime penname account. One of those stories is called "Sanctuary City" I wrote it in the 2017 timeframe and expected it to be about illegal aliens from south of the border. However, from the first sentence I discovered it was about an Asian Virus that invades the USA. the locale is in Las Vegas. It is strange that I wrote about this Asian Virus hitting the USA three years before it actually happened. I will submit chapter 3 soon and wonder from what dark corner of my mind it evolved from.

As you know, I have limited this main penname of mine to 500 stories. I have a much less successful stand alone story penname with the same name that does not get much reader interest probably because the stories are stand alone. Just added a new chapter to "Miss Oh Learns Obedience". It is one of my Japanese soft porn stories that is an acquired taste. I am thinking of adding a new revision of "My Sister's Girlfriend" under a third iteration of Harry Lime Stories that picks up storylines of completed stories. It was highly successful with close to a half million downloads in 30 sex packed chapters. Another new story I plan to add under this penname is called "Hell's Angels VS the Alien Horde". It is an orgy of violence in the battle between the most popular motorcycle club and out of this world invaders.

Now I am down to about 20 stories that still need updating out of the 500 stories on the Harry Lime account. One I just submitted today was "Dirty Bomb in the City" which is an account of a terrorist attack on Las Vegas. It reminded me of my finished novel called "A Weed in the Garden" about a Terrorist in London with misgivings about his role in a suicide attack. He loves his whiskey and his western women and it all seems so drastic to exit when he is really enjoying life in the prime of his youth.