Ack! This just came to me. It's my very first drabble evah.

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He'd have ended up there anyway—bloated and bumping lifeless against the pile under the pier. If she, panting and hours away from having their fourth child, hadn't said over the phone to him, "Get here soon but don't bother if you're going to get here drunk. Don't bother coming home at all." He would have still died of the drink. In a bed at home or at the VA. In his usual booth at the bar. In his car, taking some poor soul with him. If she had relented one more time. Forgiven him one more time. It wouldn't have mattered.

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My biggie? Carricature - no, wait, cariccature - um, caricatture - oh, screw it.

Caricature.

{{Kristin}}

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"Rowling" and "Tolkein"

Who?

Nice, the way the pace of the piece has the words and the emotions just spilling out, tumbling over one another. The sense of urgency and panic and resignation all wrapping in one.

Wow, this was hard to type (accurately). I'm fried by the stress everyone else here at work is infecting me with. I need alcohol and probably pizza.

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Jeepers, lisah. That's intense.

I just did a nice 40-minute over the phone talk with the Shrewsbury Library. I think she said there were about ten people there, and they asked good intelligent questions, and we had a ball. It's possible (ya think?) that I talked too much, but luckily, I'm a very entertaining talker.

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It seems someone else is publishing a book on our fandom and stuff.

I'm crushed.

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Who's Kiss Me Jane?

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No idea. Never heard of her til I saw the link at Whedonesque.

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Allyson, at a quick glance that book seems very different from the one you're trying to write. It calls itself a "resource" guide. Besides, there's room on the shelf!

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Allyson, don't be crushed. This may be an okay book, but it definitely won't be the same thing as yours, and yours is funny, and intimate, and touching, and very well-written. And as lisah says, room on the shelf.

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Never heard of her

Ditto.

I'm crushed.

Well, since the world will receive her book with a hearty "whatever, I'm dying to read Allyson's book", I'm hoping you can still type in your crushed state. Or, y'know, bounce back.

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