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Ahhh! I go away for a while and Berandor has a scary icon! RangerWickett, are you OK on stories?

One person's cruel pic is another's fantastic story idea...

How heavily should these be edited? i.e. remove obvious typos and that's it?

No, you *inferred* that you were being told you were "clueless" and a "newb," terms which appeared nowhere in the original post. You also decided to infer that you were being personally insulted and that your ability to judge competition entries was being denigrated, something that also was...

I do not appreciate the more personal aspersions you've decided to toss in, lacking any knowledge whatsoever of any qualifications I might possess. Am I reading the same post you are? I didn't see anyting about "aspersions" or "qualifications." Though one of the more useful qualifications for...

Gosh, use any of mine if you'd like--I am really not a good judge of my own work, so I don't know which one(s) would be best. (God knows they could use editing.)

just checking over Subscribed Threads and noticed...er...well, can the menu get updated?

Thanks to all, and congrats to orchid blossom on a tough round! I would be happy to judge next time, if needed. Much as I love Ceramic DM, I don't really want to be the elephant in the room. I'm going to sit out for a while.

Sigurd, was it really necessary to go to those extremes to compete for Best Reason to Skip Ceramic DM? ;) Glad your lady is on the mend. There'll be a next time.

Otherworld The monitor under the seat of Llewellyn's wheelchair made a soothing, muffled beep, alerting him that another two milliliters of rexynol had been safely pumped into the base of his spinal column, numbing the nerves that ran to the warped stumps that had once been his legs. He...

*whew*

Not for me.

"Let's play Volunteer for the Scary Pictures. You go first!" I think Thursdays are better for orchidblossom, and that works for me too.

FINALLY we get some smacktalk around here! ;) Great story, Thorod. Glad to see you jumping in.

Well done! Though, frankly, in your position I would be veeery curious to know exactly why it was that they offered the job at $Y and claimed there was a raise to $Y all ready and waiting for you, as long as you asked. I'm guessing that either there was a total disconnect--they advertised at...

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Eric's Grandma is rather tetchy with us ;)

At his age? Yes. First, because kids that little do not differentiate between fantasy and reality well. At six or seven, he will understand that the people in the film are actors and don't really die, that if you hit a real person with a sword you will hurt them, and so on. Not-quite-three is...

I didn't think there was a requirement that judges be former winners--I believe alsih2o saves a slot for whoever won last time, if they want it, but the real requirement is that they be reliable. Somebody who's not been around much, or who has dropped out, etc., is not a good choice for a judge.

The pic is of a Japanese warrior--I just couldn't bring myself to take the liberty of making him Chinese. (I had him ask Deirdre if she spoke Japanese partly to lean on the point that they accepted her because she too was an outsider, and partly to show I can tell the difference between Japanese...