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Castle in the sand by Deana Johns

jamien42 ๐Ÿšซ

Since she doesn't accept any feedback in SOL I thought I would try here. Great story but two glaring errors.

$1000 bills. Removed from circulation in 1969. How did he magically get them for the triplets?

A Sargent would never be a pilot in th US Air force, especially in the early to mid 90's. He would be a mid level 1st LT with 2-3 years to make Captain. As for no mandatory co-pilot, maybe but not realistic.

awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ
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@jamien42

I was amused by a far smaller blooper - Catarina was praised for speaking English without conjunctions.

ETA In today's chapter, Catarina used a contraction, which is what I assume the author really meant. I had one of the characters in one of my stories speak without contractions - not being a native English speaker - and it's very hard to catch them all. I probably didn't, but so far nobody has complained.

AJ

jimq2 ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

Do you realize this is fiction? There are lots of things you can do in fiction that you can't do in real life

Replies:   Crumbly Writer
Crumbly Writer ๐Ÿšซ

@jimq2

There's also knowing WTF you're describing. It's known as "due diligence".

You can adapt details to better fit a story, but it's better what's accurate before making things up on the fly. But, often their national differences (British, Traditional British, American, Australian, New-Zealand English, etc.). There are both major and minor differences between them. That's especially true for common phrases and usages.

palamedes ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

$1000 bills. Removed from circulation in 1969. How did he magically get them for the triplets?

Not all of the bills have been removed from circulation. While the Treasury policy is to withdraw any $1000 bills it receives they are still legal tender.

Simple search online shows as of May 30, 2009, there were 165,372 $1,000 bills known to exist.

Every now and then they come up for auction or you can go to a high end coin dealer who will know who has and are willing to sell one but while a bank will only give you a $1000 dollars for the bill The Swicegood Group a high end auction sold a single bill for $4,050 so you better have deep pockets.

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Crumbly Writer ๐Ÿšซ

@palamedes

As far as I recall, those high-denomination bills are mostly used by foreigners (ex: Saudi Arabia) rather than domestic Americans, as it's easier to pay off large sums (ex: bribes, illegal arms sales, weapon systems, etc.).

But, it's been quite a while (Never) since I last needed a $1,000 bill.

Replies:   jamien42  zitqhile
jamien42 ๐Ÿšซ

@Crumbly Writer

Exactly. Not something you just have lying around, especially 3 of them. Krugerrands would be a lot more believable.

zitqhile ๐Ÿšซ

@Crumbly Writer

A few 1000$ bills would have come in handy today. Just to reduce the amount of 100$ bills needed. Person wants cash. Legal reasons(on my side).

jamie_oliver ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

Weird story. The MC first takes care of the women he rescues and then randomly lets them screw some men who he doesn't even know. And the women who apparently are in love with him jump on these unknown men.

Replies:   awnlee jawking
awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@jamie_oliver

It's unusual to find a harem story on SOL where equality exists.

AJ

jamie_oliver ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

It isn't a harem story if the girls sleep with those outside. But the issue isn't that. It just happens randomly. There is no build up to it. They just suddenly one day decide to sleep with other men they don't even know. Just for the heck of it.

The premise earlier was that the MC couldn't satisfy them all and was upset about that - but even when given the option to overcome that with some weird mechanism that suddenly crops up, the MC just says shove it and then the story just goes weird.

Bondi Beach ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

Wasn't this story posted years ago, on ASSTR, even?

Replies:   jimq2
jimq2 ๐Ÿšซ

@Bondi Beach

The copy I downloaded from ASSTR is dated 1997 with a ยฉ of 1996.

Replies:   Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach ๐Ÿšซ

@jimq2

Thank you.

akarge ๐Ÿšซ

@jamien42

Slightly diverting topics, I vaguely remember a book that I read MANY years ago. Maybe in the 60s. A mystery, probably aimed at juveniles. "The Missing Ten Thousand Dollar Bill." It's from 1960.

Apparently they made those bills primarily as was to transfer bills from treasury departments to federal reserves, etc. Just to keep the books staight.

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