C James

American. I am not fond of tomatoes for breakfast, nor of English bacon. The sausages are good though. real or fake cream on desserts?

Nope! I'm pretty sure it will be food. The person below me is a good cook (unlike me).

I'll give a hint... I had some other names under consideration for their home town: Dry Valley was one of 'em.

I loved Larry's intro to Aaron. Aaron's parents are great. Too bad that parents like that are so rare. I'm glad you had the Mom blush during the "speech", that made it more real.

Welcome Clawviper!!!

Nope, but congratulations, Graeme!! They aren't easy to spot. The person below me loves sky-watching

Softcover!!! Easier and lighter to tote around, as well as being cheaper to buy. OOOps! Edit to add: I seem to have cross-posted. No sugar! Library or Bookstore?

I concede the point on the arrested/burned issue as there probably wouldn't have been much point in arresting him after the burning. Sounds better in English than in your tongue? So, what alien dialect do you speak? BTW, a serious point: I notice that your characters have slightly different speech patterns. Is that intentional? It really adds to the story in my opinion! Looking forward to 13! CJ

Thanks!! ROFL!!!!!!!!! That wouldn't be a problem, it would be a catastrophe! Thanks Altimexis! I am in agreement with you and Graeme on the ending. I won't do it that way again. It is, however, perhaps possible that I may have another cliffhanger at some point. Thanks Bob!!!!!!! Had some snow here (a few days ago), but not enough yet, so still a drought.

Those are good points, and I was concerned about the repetition myself, which is why Chris' part was so abbreviated. I probably could have found a way to trim Veronica's part a little more. What I had to convey there was her side of the story (such as how she came to be able to intercept Steve), the very critical info that there are a few of the Piedmont PD involved, and a few other bits and how they related. Ch 12 contains more about the situation, enough to make most of it (Regarding the Piedmont PD) crystal clear. Thank you Low Flyer!!! Thanks Rick!!! I do agree that they need to stay out of Piedmont. The question is, will they?

Chapter 11, Bullet Riddled Body, is up. It is a little early, but I may well be offline until evening on Tuesday, so figured I'd put it up earlier rather than later.

Swimming in a pool (though I love both). Swimming in a river, or a lake?

Therefor, you are saying that I should give lurking lessons! Nope, I'm American.... The person below me has been to Australia.

#1 is true, but it wasn't a remote-controll plane. It was a single-engine piper cherokee, and I was a student pilot on a cross-country solo. I had a major fuel leak at 10k feet, and due to the perceived risk of fire I had to pull the mixture (shuts off fuel to the engine) and kill the master electrical switch (shuts off power). I did a dead stick straight in approch to an airport I'd never been to before, but didn't quite make the runway, and touched down on graded dirt just short of it (maybe a dozen feet) at about a hundred mph. I was landing without flaps (they were electric) and downwind, so my touchdown speed was close on twice normal for that type of aircraft. I spent an hour on the ground looking into the fuel problem, got it sorted out, and took off again. #3 is false: it was only once. OK, I'll try again... Hmmmmm #1, I like peanut butter and pepperoni sandwiches #2 I like Tabasco sauce on vanilla ice cream. #3 I like garlic on vanilla ice cream.

At least now we know the real reason why Kevin hasn't been around here as much lately... The secret service won't let him!

Nope... And maybe I should give lurking lessons? The person below me thinks I should give lurking lessons...

I'm not a sci major, I just have a hobby interest in physics. The person below me is wondering where Myk went?

Heh!!!!!!!!!!! McGyver, eh? LoL! #2, actually, is true. Yes, I did indeed go to a war zone solely for a vacation, and yes, the Artillery did keep me awake at night. I was talked into it by my cousin. He said he had been and it was fine, and I was going to the UK anyway, so I checked and found that package holidays in Bosnia were dirt cheap (now, I know why) So, I went. The artillery was distant and only occasional (no worse than a distant thunderstorm, though it sounds a little different) but it did keep me awake, though the biggest noise issue was the frequent chatter of AK-47's, far closer. All in all, not one of my better vacation ideas. This was in the mid-90s ('95, I think) and I'd heard that the fighting had died down, and wasn't a factor in the area I was visiting. Oops. So that leaves #3 or #1...

Yes, yes, metal ones, but what style? Oops. I forgot that... Awww, but what size tires, what brand? And most importantly, what speed rating? Ah, yes, poor old Jacques... Though, I'd be more inclined to consider unlucky, were I him, the date of his burning at the stake than his arrest, but that indeed is how it transpired.

No, no, adding errors is my job! LoL! Your job, as Anonymous Beta Reader, is to alert me to my many and varied goofs, plus offer ideas for wording, plot, etc. (Which, I might add, you are very good at, and this story is greatly improved thanks to your efforts). I'm the writer of FTL so mistakes are my domain! All mine, and I won't share!!! I do? I have no idea what it could be? Would I do such a thing as that?

THANK YOU! That's a cool pic. And thank you for calling me a lurker! You might find this hard to believe, but some folks hearabouts have been known to be a little skeptical about that. I have no idea why.

I should add that it is very rare for me to get sequential pages without red. In my first story (summer anthology) I even managed one and a half pages that were ENTIRELY red. LoL. Poor Emoe had to buy red ink by the barrel! I do actually make a lot of mistakes. My opinion is that my responsibility to catch mistakes and typos, so the Editor can focus on wording tweeks and other improvements. I'm a very long way from that yet, but I'm trying hard to get there. Also, I do have a very good Anonymous Beta Reader, Shdowgod, who catches some of my goofs before Emoe sees it. I did however conduct an experiment recently. Instead of just churning my way through a chapter and then going back to fix typos, spelling, punctuation, tenses, etc, I instead concentrated on making sure each sentence was right before writing the next. I think Emoe would have been very pleased with the lack of red ink. However, he would not have been pleased with the actual writing. I ended up with a page after page of single sentence paragraphs that was flat and dull. It also took me three times as long to write it. I deleted that chapter and started over (it was unsalvageable), going back to my "old" way. I also managed to bungle up capitalization in a few places in Ch 11, because I'd been trying to study punctuation while writing it, and had gotten a rule wrong. So, I went from not having a capitalization problem to having one. Oops.

To be, or to look at? LoL... I gotta admit, I like blonds. I've even been one, once. Morning person or evening person?