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Fifty comments on my last blog post.

The score is 47-3 in favor of keeping on down the path of just a bit of an abnormal relationship that seems to be developing.

Folks, despite my best efforts to the contrary, sex creeps into my stories, and there's always the possibility that sexual creatures might stray outside the boundaries of the conventional mores.

B3elieve me, I write about girls **I** would like to meet. Deena, in Bill & Haley is a little bit young and a little bit adventurous and Haley may be just a little bit passive. What happened in Chapter 22 is going to continue to be a topic of conversation in Chapter 23 as conventional Haley comes to grips with the actuality of the event. She's got to think it through.

Bill and Deena will have to deal with the result. And believe me, folks, all the cards are not yet dealt.

Okay, so in one of my stories, Bill & Haley, a bit of a lesbian element showed up and since ONE of the participants is married and the OTHER participant is the teen daughter of the husband, it's a 'cheating' scenario as well.

I knew when I wrote it, I would get reactions. I did. At last count, eight to one in favor of 'this is interesting. Keep going.' And the others are in the vein of 'you're breaking my heart. Your girls are sooo sweet and nice and monogamous.

I have had more than a little trepidation in doing this. First, **I** see my girls as sweet and nice. I try to write about likeable people.

Second, though, is I get occasional comment that my writing is getting too formulaic, that I need to add a few different elements. I think this story line is different.

One reader said that I just ran over his 'squick factor'. I'm sorry. I treasure every reader. However, as a lover of many genres of literature, I know MANY books that I've read that took off in directions I didn't particularly enjoy. Perhaps this is that.

That being said, Bill 'n' Haley will continue to parallel the goings-on in the Community, so if you hang with me, you'll still see that. If you choose to stop reading Bill 'n' Haley, I hope you continue to enjoy the other stories.

Thank you - Oyster50

It's been a month since I last popped up here. Life's pretty good. Real life - the job - has taken interesting turns that make it fun to show up in the morning, and also require that I bop around the countryside a bit. For that entertainment, they pay me.

Dorable, my lovely and somewhat flighty muse has been cooperative. The chapters for three active stories are rolling out every two or three days.

I just thought about it, and right now I'm basically writing three different threads of the same story arc of the Smart Girls.

I do want to nod my head in the direction of some of my readers and my editor who have been prodding me with vignettes and story lines. Makes writing fun.

And as long as it's fun, I'll keep doing it. Plus, I don't have these stories plotted out in advance, so I want to see what happens next, just like you do.

It's been a fun story, but juggling four active stories is a bit much for me and I was running out of direction for this one. Thank you all for reading.

Since so many asked, here's the deal on Chapter 19a of Community 3. As you, my faithful readers remember, I started the story of Tommy and Mimi a few chapters ago as part of Community 3. It didn't take long to see (and be told - I pay attention to comments) that the story of Tommy and Mimi should stand on its own. By that time I'd written it into Community 3 as far a chapter 19.

Most of you remember the confusion when I peeled the Tommy & Mimi story out to set it on its own. When that happened I still had the original chapter 19 on my computer, so when I started writing the new chapter 19, I had to either get rid of the old one or make a new name. The new name was '19a'.

So that's it. '19' is part of Tommy. '19a' got posted. A bunch of people think I'm losing it. I'm old, but I'm not THAT old.

And as always, I appreciate the feedback.