Right, as I've threatened recently, I've another Ben and William short I'm working on. (Though does it still count as a short story if it's 9K+ words? I dunno)

Anyway, I've been trying to stretch some with this one and have a more deliberate structure and theme to the story. That's a good thing, I think, assuming I managed to do it, but it makes it tougher to tell; with a good adventure story you just have to make sure that the thumping happens in more or less the right order, the descriptions all match, and there's sufficient witty banter to make everyone overlook the inherent silliness of the genre. (A genre I very much enjoy, I'll add, but that doesn't make it any less silly)

This one's been more work, and I need some careful read-overs of it to make sure I actually accomplished what I was setting out to do.

If anyone's interested, I'd very much appreciate some beta readers to flag where it did (and didn't) work.