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[mirabile_dictu]

I've updated the chart I keep (because I'm slightly OCD) wherein I list all the RPS stories I've written, organized by POV and including pairing. I should really add another column for time, because so many of the stories are set in the future, others back in the early days of filming in New Zealand, and few set right now. Maybe in the next

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[fantasy_fan]

I love that you've put this up again, because I love to re-read and this makes it easy. By the way, I re-read Virtuous Men yesterday, and I seemed to remember it having a different ending, sort of an epilogue where it was revealed that Sean was living somewhere (New Zealand?) under the name of Sam. Did I hallucinate that, or did you not like the ending?

[mirabile_dictu]

Thank you! I mostly did it for myself, so I'm pleased to learn someone else finds the chart useful.

You did not hallucinate the postscript to Virtuous Men! However, I chose not to include it in the story. Rather, a few days later I posted it as one of several "outtakes" that never made it into the story. You can find it here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mirabile_dictu/18761.html#cutid1

It's the last one on the page.

Thank you so very much!

[fantasy_fan]

Thank you! I went and read, and it was what I remembered. I have evidently staved off senility or madness for one more day.

Interesting to read them, though. I think you were right to cut them out. Dom drifting into obscurity as a chef does not have the same abruptness in cutting away from his friends that the story needs, nor is Orli as strong here. And the last one, though it satisfies a sort of morbid curiosity, acutally weakens the sense of loss somehow. It is more painful to never know, in the same sense as the remaining fellowship struggles to make some sense of what has happened, both to Sean, and to themselves.

A very good story, which evidently I never said thank you for when it was first posted. So, a belated thanks now.

[mirabile_dictu]

And thank you again! Normally I don't share the bits that don't make the final cut into a story, but I really liked these three. They just didn't work inside the story I was trying to tell, alas. I guess this falls under the "you have to shoot your darlings" phase of writing. You've made me glad I found the courage to post them separately, so thank you for that, too.

[mirabile_dictu]

Heh. Don't you hate that we can't edit comments? Thank you for your kind words, dear one. This is a wonderful fandom and I'm so happy to be here. I'm so glad you're here, too.

[snarkyducky]

THANK YOU! i've loved your "Another part of the island" dearly and would never have found "The rain is full of ghosts tonight" if not for this entry..

*goes to read*

[mirabile_dictu]

*beams at you*

Thank you!