You can borrow Polyskitsodia if you want to. She's mellowed out right now - she just put a "YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO US!!!!" ending to a story on which I'm still doing alpha passes. (Spoiler: it's not my next offering.)

This little series is absolutely brilliant. I envy your ability to pull things like this out of multiple challenges, link them together in a reasonable and coherent fashion, and make us laugh and cry at the same time.

I loved the "good horse" line too. It's actually quite fitting that this fortune came back to him at that point. Wonderful job, Mary, simply wonderful.

My favorite, though, was

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Nigerian princesses did not impress her, but helpful spacemen did

It just seems - perfect.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing