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Okay, in the ongoing saga of trying to peel a couple of nice people out of a bigger story, I have added a bit to Chapter 1 of Tommy. It's not new, it's basically more of where his story got started in Community 3.

I've also posted Chapter 3.

All this should be stabilized enough to continue forward as my muse allows.

My little muse Dorable is all aflitter from the celestial disturbances caused by the eclipse.

She tells me that I need to go back even further into Tommy's story, so that's going to happen. However, it won't happen tonight. I have Real Life(TM) things afoot, so tomorrow's going to be the big update, including re-ordering the three existing chapters, adding the prequel as the new Chapter 1.

Confusing, I know... But SHE says she'll take good care of me if I accede to her wishes.

Not being a professional writer of fiction, I don't have my stories mapped out ahead of time, so when I introduced Tommy and Mimi into Community 3 i didn't know where I was going. I was thinking 'vignette'.

Wrong.

They took on a life of their own. Worth another story.

Accordingly, I have peeled out the last two chapters of Community 3 and retitled them for our protagonist, Tommy, and reposted them. They will soon be followed by Chapter 3, which is at the editor's as we speak.

If you've been following the story so far, the first two chapters are essentially identical to previous postings in <Community 3.

If you haven't been reading, then this is little bit of a nice guy trying to be a nice guy, with a girl who's taken a wrong path, but wants out.

Enjoy.

Just submitted a chapter of Lena for posting.

Yes, I know - out of sequence.

Well, friends, it's been a bad week, right up to the point that I got a bit of food poisoning from a bad crouton somewhere. The Lena chapter was ready, so here it is. I hope to resume a more regular schedule of posting, that is, of course, contingent on Dorable's dimpled butt showing up to help.

Just like the old song...

Lots of work issues and domestic issues have kept the muse a bit nervous and flighty, and the chapter of Lena that I posted today is two weeks old because it got lost between me and my editor, but here it is, and with a little respite from external distractions I should resume a more satisfactory posting schedule.

Satisfactory? Darned straight. I write these things because **I** want to see what happens next, too, you know.

As always, encouraging letters are helpful. And don't forget, if you want to hit my old email, you can do oyster1950@gmail.com.