In case you were waiting for it . . .
Edited to add URLs.
The Donor is now complete on line. I don't know if anybody is reading it, but there it is. I went back and changed it from block paragraphs to indented paragraphs, and it looks okay in my browser, but if it doesn't work in yours, you could let me know. I did make an attempt at dealing with it all with cascading style sheets, but I was missing something and I decided to do it the clunky old nonbreaking spaces way, which I understand has problems.
Also, if you find typoes, let me know.
And there's a burning question for me: one reader when I first wrote the thing seemed to think the ending was (ROT-13)ragveryl gbb unccl, but I thought it was (ROT-13)gbb ceboyrzngvp gb or npghnyyl unccl.
Also, soon I'll be moving other fiction of mine to the website, and resuming Bella and Chain.
On another front, my doctor has referred me for a polysomnogram because my blood pressure, while not really high, is proving hard to control (since we discovered that my old drug, which worked, was causing me to cough a lot), and because when I was younger I used to fall asleep inappropriately a lot (I almost never do now). I don't have the characteristic heavy snoring with gasping and stuff. He says that it might be that I don't fall asleep inappropriately any more because I "learned to live with it." I don't know if it's germane, but my mother said I used to stop breathing and turn blue when I was a baby. The doctor of the time said "Sometimes they do that." And my mother said "What if she stops breathing altogether? She could die." and the doctor said "Sometimes they do that."
I didn't die.
The Donor is now complete on line. I don't know if anybody is reading it, but there it is. I went back and changed it from block paragraphs to indented paragraphs, and it looks okay in my browser, but if it doesn't work in yours, you could let me know. I did make an attempt at dealing with it all with cascading style sheets, but I was missing something and I decided to do it the clunky old nonbreaking spaces way, which I understand has problems.
Also, if you find typoes, let me know.
And there's a burning question for me: one reader when I first wrote the thing seemed to think the ending was (ROT-13)ragveryl gbb unccl, but I thought it was (ROT-13)gbb ceboyrzngvp gb or npghnyyl unccl.
Also, soon I'll be moving other fiction of mine to the website, and resuming Bella and Chain.
On another front, my doctor has referred me for a polysomnogram because my blood pressure, while not really high, is proving hard to control (since we discovered that my old drug, which worked, was causing me to cough a lot), and because when I was younger I used to fall asleep inappropriately a lot (I almost never do now). I don't have the characteristic heavy snoring with gasping and stuff. He says that it might be that I don't fall asleep inappropriately any more because I "learned to live with it." I don't know if it's germane, but my mother said I used to stop breathing and turn blue when I was a baby. The doctor of the time said "Sometimes they do that." And my mother said "What if she stops breathing altogether? She could die." and the doctor said "Sometimes they do that."
I didn't die.