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Combat is getting hot and heavy. Enjoy!

I got an email from Nuff_Said: “I found that your story "A Fresh Start" was translated into Russian and is all over websites that offer it for free.” We are all in trouble now! The Kremlin has learned Carl Buckman’s secret plans to keep them in their place!

Seriously, this has happened in the past. Somebody stole some stories and put them on Amazon under their own name; that was stopped a few years ago. I don't think I am going to be able to get a Russian thief to stop.

Anyway. until the Russians invade, you can read chapter 18. Enjoy!

Sorry about the mess with Tuesday’s upload. I am guessing that adding Section headings after the story was created screwed up the system indexing. Thankfully that has been fixed.

The new invasion is underway. Enjoy!

Not sure why it happened, but we had major problems when Chapter 16 was uploaded. The timeline is as follows. First, I uploaded Chapter 16 and it worked fine. I read the story, and everything was in order. Five minutes later, I added Section headings, which is how I originally wrote the story. I then checked the Table of Contents and it all looked fine. However, it seems that adding the sections screwed everything up. Everybody focused on the problems with Chapters 15 & 16, but it was throughout the story. Chapter 2 was missing, other chapters were wrong - basically the whole thing was a mess!

I dumped it on Lazeez, the webmaster, and got the following response: “I checked the story. I found no duplicates on my end. I cleared the story's cache on the server. Please check and let me know if that fixed the issue.” That seemed to do the trick. Please check.

Fixing this was both heartwarming and a major nuisance. I had forty-plus responses, which is very heartening. However, I also try to respond to everybody, which meant I had to respond to forty-plus mentions of the problem! Thank you all!

I have heard from a number of readers that Chapter 15 & 16 are the same. I think something happened when I added section headings after uploading Chapter 16.

Refresh your cache. On my system, both in Edge and Firefox, it is reading correctly. Chapter 16 should start with a first line specifying 'Part 2 - War' and a second line specifying 'Chapter 16: It Begins' If you aren't seeing that, clear your cache and refresh.

Thanks!