Oh! insent, deb.http://www.buffistas.org/images/btn_post.gif

Allyson, reading even as we speak, with my usual "notes as I read" thang going on. Expect the email in a few.

ooof. deb, I am SO SORRY I forgot to comb through the grammar before sending it to you. A sticking point for me throughout this project is the tense, because I'm switching back and forth between present and past. I didn't mean for you to have to pick through grammar, which I always think is terribly tedious for a beta, and terribly embarassing for me.

Heh. Allyson, it wasn't a problem - I figured you'd gone zoooming through it, putting it together - and that's just the sort of thing I do myself, tense-swapping or losing commas, when I'm working at hyper-speed.

Feedback any help?

Yes, deb, thanks! It's hard to do a cleanup this late in the game when I'm tired and punchy. Almost there. Almost.http://www.buffistas.org/images/btn_post.gif

That one barely needed cleanup - it was far more along the "three lines there really need to go byebye, three single lines needed to be added to connect the dots, check the speed-comma dealie" and hey presto, there you are.

You know what, I just realised, I'm supposed to be signing this week, once at the Persephone table (we're the womens' arm of the Horror Writers of America, and the HWA convention starts this week) and once during a humongous event at Borderlands on Thursday night, and I have no idea where or when the Persephone signing is? I should probably find out.

Sliding in under the wire:

The Big Reveal (100 words)

"I like your father."

"Who? WHAT?"

"You know, your dad. T."

Quietly: "T's NOT my father. He and my mother got married when I was twelve."

"Oh. Sorry."

"Yeah. Only met my father once. He was married to my mom's sister."

".... Oh, hell. Was it consensual?"

"I think that depends on who you ask."

Great. Just great. What do you say when you find out that your best friend is the product of a rape? "I'm sorry that your mother had to go through that, but I'm very glad you're here" just doesn't cut it, on so many levels.

Dagnabit. I can't see to find an old drabble of mine. Grr.

Aimee, do you remember the topic? I might be able to poke through the posts on the LJ community and find it for you.

ION -- New drabble topic!

Challenge #108 (the big reveal) is now closed.

Challenge #109 is lies my parents told me.

I realize this is a VERY potentially 'splodey topic. But it's been rattling around in my brain recently, so there it is.

Lies

"You can tell me anything."

Sure, we can tell you, Mother. It's not even really a lie, come to think of it. You make no promises as to how you'll react.

Which is why Sharon stormed out of the house and went back to school early that one Christmas vacation. Which is why Linda lurked upstairs until just before the school bus got there so you couldn't see she was wearing jeans to school. Which is why you threatened not to let me go back to college when you found those birth control pills in my dresser drawer--"except I'd have to tell your father."

"I wouldn't read your diaries if you'd just tell me things!"

I can't imagine why we didn't tell you things.