Dammit. I don't like cliffhangers

Damn, you have that evil, evil author part down pat.

Sharon

The evil author thing is spotty and unreliable. I'm still working on it.

Oh! ... you ... you ... rat!

46 chapters, and then you get all cliffhangery. Grrr.

'twas a wickedly good chapter though.

I don't think cliffhangers are evil. I think they're necessary, to prevent the situation in which you might as well stop reading because you're already done. I had pretty much dicounted the dissociated personality theory already, and I had already thought that Toby and Chris' illnesses might have had something to do with how Alex -- shall I say manifests?

I like cliffhangers as a tool, I've just never been very good at them. They force continuity between chapters, which is good. One of the issues that Yankee had was that the chapters all just... ended. There wasn't clear linkage between them. That can work out fine, but it gives the reader time to rest, and that's not always a good thing.

'Course, as I've been kinda bogged down the past few days this cliffhanger may hang for a while. I've not got much queued up.