Sparky's Dad, my recent seerial about Diane and Eric, will end in a few hours. Will they life happily ever after? Will I write a sequel?
No, and No.
People don't live happily ever after. (John Barth writes that the Arabian-Nights version of that specifically mentions death.) Certainly, couples with the inherent conflicts that Eric and Diane have don't.
OTOH< they have more going for them than some comments seem to think. Valerie/Sparky, for one.
As Diane settles into her practice, she will have an arena in which she is the star. Some day, she'll see a kid who looks abused; the law calls on her to report that; she won't have the slightest fear of the parent having more resources than she can muster.
Eric was perfectly happy with a wife who decided his clothes and his menu, enjoyed his money and let him enjoy her enjoyment. Diane won't provide quite the same, but she does have a history of caring for lost strays.
On a third hand, what happens when Valerie wants more freedom, Diane agrees with her, and Eric doesn't?
What happens when Diane brings home a disease from work and Sparky catches it?
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I have another serial starting real soon now. It's a Regency Romance. It will have just what some people enjoyed about Sparky's Dad; it wont have what others enjoyed about that story. Read it and see.
In the mean while, I'll be posting some short stories -- many of them short-shorts. I have 140 other stories already on the site. Some commenters have compared Sparky's Dad to the Brennan stories. If you haven't read them, try them out.