No, I'm not leaving any time soon. This is more a parting thought to Grim and Company. A few people commented on the Epilogue and how the family ended up. A little over the top? No! A lot over the top! Then again, most of the family was more than a bit above average. I decided to go big and go home! As for continuing the story, or writing small interlude pieces, sorry, but I just don't see that happening. It's time to stop.
Many thanks to all the kind readers who enjoyed this series. Your thoughts (and dollars!) are much appreciated. My wife thanks you as well, since she spends it!
Quite a few noticed that there were some major formatting problems in the last chapter and epilogue. No idea what happened, but the SOL system added a bunch of random paragraph breaks that weren't in the original html files. I spent many a year coding in html so I could read the code and find things that weren't in what I had uploaded. I had to regenerate the files and reload them. They look okay now.
Again, I can't thank my editors enough. I'm nowhere near smart enough to do this stuff on my own, especially since I've never served or been a cop. RSC got a lot of assistance from grynslvr2, jjmcdonald7911, pdkrause, and Old Rotorhead. I could never have done this without their assistance.
Quite a few readers wanted to know what I was doing next. It's going to be tough to come up with somebody as interesting as either Carl Buckman or Graham Reaper. Not sure I'm even going to try. I've been going through my archives, reviewing some stories that I started but never got around to finishing. Some of them have some real possibilities. I finished one, a short story, and I'll be putting it up sometime in August. I have two other strong contenders that I am still giving some thought to; they are going to take longer to sort out. I don't imagine I will be publishing them this year.