I put the new short story outside Jake's Universe because the story line is totally independent of Jake's life. But there are many people downloading it who have not read my other work and they do not seem to understand the basis for some of the material. The story would not have worked as a longer form piece. Still if I had put it into the orbit of thread #2 I think two things wold have happened. (1) fewer people would have downloaded it and (2) of those fewer a larger percentage would have liked it if only because they would have the reference material understood. As Joy from #2 would have said: bahala na. (I did my best, the rest is up to God.)