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Ah-- so Mildred is on the proverbial edge of the proverbial coin? Or a different coin entirely?

Ah-- so Mildred is on the proverbial edge of the proverbial coin?

Fascinating. Sounds like it might be time for Robin Hood to get involved. After all, he has the power of negative light and shield regarding skwish. Perhaps he could detect more about Mildred. Sounds like Mildred may also be on the opposite side of the proverbial skwish coin. After all, Charlie and Ricky are. Mildred may be in another sector of the reverse side of the proverbial skwish coin. (Charlie's split- presence/second presence is first explained in "It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist, Charlie Boone!)

Love your enthusiasm, @James Baxter. I think we are in for a ride. I am wondering if Charlie's second presence might be a help in finding out some of this. I can think of lots of possibilities for this story, from alternate earth/earthlike planet visitors to strange creatures we have not yet learned about to Irish spirits to an earth version of a foobear.

Well, if there is "nothing there," sounds like they need to get Keerby involved, or Ragal and Casper and Durapar. After all, Keerby seems like the resident expert on alternate dimensions, while Horace and Ragal and Casper working with him can sense almost anything. If they stay with Annie, Horace could play the piano for the dimensional residents of her home, and perhaps Annie's skwish would wake enough to see them. (If not this Halloween, perhaps a future one.) This story has tremendous potential, @Geron Kees. Since you live in the Eastern US time zone, it was Halloween when you posted it. Thanks! Oh, forgot to mention -- since radio and television frequencies sometime have harmonics which manifest in interesting ways, perhaps there are harmonics with the Tesla device at Annie's which manifest at Ms. Tull's home? (If you don't know what I refer to, read -- "Every Boy Should Face His Demons, Charlie Boone!")

Update on AwesomeDude dot com: John (author Alien Son) has updated this link with some encouraging information: Read through ALL the posts in that thread for the latest news, much of it quite encouraging. https://forums.awesomedude.com/topic/72248-what-does-the-future-hold-for-awesomedude/

So when is your new line of punch coming out, @Geron Kees? Should I be looking for "Geron's Great Gulp of Goodness Punch," or "Geron's Green Goodness Punch," or some other alliteration, such as "Geron's Powerful Punch?"

Interesting chapter. Sounds like Coop is going to have trouble with Pete.

These three chapters and intriguing, intelligently invented, enlightening, and fun, all at the same time. The main characters interest, explain, and involve our imaginations as we enjoy Aaron's imagination which created these three chapters. I would give this set of stories more than five stars if the system would let me -- they are that good. Hope especially to see Jared, Horacio, Symanthus, Zaltho, Silyn, and even Frederick the taxi driver again.

Enjoyed these three chapters greatly! I spotted Horacio having been working for Oceanic -- I notice he called it Oceanic in one place and Dub-O in another. I hope, as I slowly read through your stories already published, I run across more of this universe. If I didn't have so many responsibilities IRL (In Real Life), I could probably catch up in two or three weeks. Glad I discovered you as an author.

Late to the party, but loved reading this. Thanks, @astone2292.

Once again, the fantastic, amazing, whimsical, and yet believable talent of Aaron Stone has brilliantly shown up. To fully appreciate this story I had to read it more than once, and some parts three or four times, though I greatly enjoyed it on first reading. Well worth the short time it takes to read the story. It also reminds me Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky, in that proper climate and atmosphere quarters had to be prepared for the humans and some of the others on the planet, and an old ST:TOS (Star Trek: The Original Series) episode where there was a being called The Companion. However, this story was far better presented than that ST:TOS episode.

Sometimes what one person sees as new another person may feel that is a re-hashing of something previously said. That being said, I think this topic, if continued, might be better in the other location.

Well, you still have the name Barrie and the Beast available -- Barrie's dad noticed he had a VERY well endowed male protrusion at birth and named him Barrie in honor of Peter Pan -- which was written by James M. Barrie -- using Barrie so it would not be so obvious what the boy was being named for. Unusual shifters? In one of Larry Niven's short stories, he mentioned a were-whale. Another author mentioned, in one of his stories, that unicorns normally had the ability to shift also to human form and one other. But some herd stallion unicorns could master a fourth form. This one unicorn stallion could be a unicorn, a human, a dragon, and a roach!

You said something about Cow-man could be udderly ridiculous? Cow man wouldn't have an udder. A scrotum however-- Who knows what games could be played with balls? And new/rewritten fairy tales -- Handsome and Gresham? Jack and the Big Stalk? Puss Out of Boots? Sleeping Beauford? A retelling of The Frog Prince? The Emperor's Sexy Clothes? The Tortoise (man with very delayed ejac issues) and the Hare (guy with the proverbial hair-trigger)? Aladdin and His Genie? The possibilities are many. I bet @Philippe could come up with more.

Good Work, @chris191070 and @hankster. I see both of you in the copyright information, so obviously you both had a part. So when is another story coming out, of how the kids manage to find success and get out from the shadow of George and Jay, Colin and Mark? Good work, guys.

What, you are not including intuitive, interesting, imaginative, incredible, inconceivable, inventive, irregular (in the sense of not ordinary), individualistic, and more. Looking forward to more stories from you.

An, @Daddydavek, I have to point out someone could have the trait of empathy AND be a sociopath. Such a person would be potentially intensely dangerous. The ability to read emotions and then direct them the way the sociopath wanted -- terrifying to think about.

This is a story where we discover more as we progress. Allan and Mark help balance each other to some extent, with Allan at this point seeming more grounded. A short tale which is both intriguing and enjoyable.

@astone2292 -- great story. Some questions were left unanswered, such as -- how was the fusion/combination/attunement accomplished? Did the gaseous ones mate with any others of the species who came to the planet? What else has happened or will happen? I hope that, eventually, more stories relating to this come forth.

Fascinating. Should you add more in relation to this story, I will be glad to read it. Allan reminds me of Spock and Data for some reason.

I was told by a website owner that G was trying to charge him for the safe certificate, and they have to be renewed every so often. After fighting them for about a year, he finally surrendered and purchased a safe certificate. He said it made his site no safer; just didn't have to fight them any longer.

I just accessed Tickie at: tickiestories dot us (do NOT put www in front).

When there are authors such as @JamesSavik, @dkstories, @AC Benus, @Bill W, @quokka, @Geron Kees, @lomax61, @Altimexis, @Grumpy Bear, @D.K. Daniels, and @W_L all on the same set of stories, there has to be tons of good stuff here. I have not yet read all the posted stories by some of those authors, and now I have even more leads on authors and stories! I need a few months with no interruptions so I can read all of these.

This is a story with lots of answers, and the answers generate more questions. As with almost all of the stories by James Savik, it is not only well worth reading, but also of being connected to even more of his stories. To me it seems a short read, since I'm used to reading stories of 8,000 to 12,000 words in a chapter, but well written as it is, it seems shorter than it is. Science fiction, science speculation, generating questions and some answers -- @JamesSavik, please sir, give us more!