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Grim and Kelly are growing up. Grim must have forgotten what his father told him when he was a little boy: “Girls are nothing but trouble! They’re yucky and have cooties and stuff.” Oh well, he’ll learn! Enjoy!
For those who think the legal shenanigans in Chapter 9 are over the top, sorry. This sort of thing happens all the time. If you’re rich and white, the law really is different. Enjoy!
Chapter 8 isn’t necessarily the longest chapter, but it covered what had to be covered. That’s one of the things about breaking a story into pieces. Not all the pieces break into the same size.
In many ways, the same could be said of pretzels and potato chips. I suppose I could come up with something philosophical about that. I’ll have to think on that tonight, maybe with a beer, and some pretzels and potato chips.
In the meantime, enjoy!
Lots of groans and moans about a cliffhanger at the end. God, I love it!
Many of the great authors of the 19th Century specialized in cliffhangers. Dickens and Dumas come to mind. In those days it was common for an author to be initially published not in books, but in newspapers and periodicals. Every few days, or maybe every issue, a chapter would be published. The publishers loved this, since a good story would guarantee that readers would come back and purchase the next issue, to get to the next chapter. Cliffhangers abounded, and when a story had multiple plot lines they often switched, leaving a cliffhanger to be resolved several chapters – and issues – down the pike. Only when the story was done would the book actually be published as a book.
No, I do not consider myself anywhere near the level of those writers. I do enjoy their writing, though, and enjoy their technique.
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