On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 14:24:52 -0500 (EST), Matthew Lewis
<maybeso@ican.net> wrote:

       So why does email not work for you then? You can still affect things
(an example would be taking apart the computer), so technically it wouldn't be
really that different from writing something. You are not noticed, but the
consequences of your actions would be.
       Of course, your email would have your name on it, which would signify
that it came from you, which could cause other people to not notice it, I
suppose.

Something like that. The curse causes people to ignore the results of
things that I (the me in this story) do. Even sending messages via a
no-name hotmail account wouldn't work. It's a "smart" curse.

Artistic license also works too... (I spend far too much time trying 
to find plot holes in things, and then trying to think of some way to explain
them. Could you guess that from this? ^_^)

Well, if you do, welcome to the club. :-)

       I liked it. Reminiscent of an episode of the New Twilight Zone from

Thanks for the compliment!

the 80's. If you wanted to lengthen the story a bit, you could expand on the
'using this to learn secrets' bit, have him go around just taking whatever he 
wants from stores and such, trying various ways of communicating with people
(anonymous letters or something perhaps? The creation of a new ghost myth in
whatever place he finds himself in mayhaps), only to end in failure.
       Revengefics tend not to be long though, and also are usually fairly
oneshot in nature (lacking many revisions), so maybe not.

In this case, I think not. (Therefore I'm not? Maybe that's how the
curse works. :-) Anyway...) Real-life me doesn't really know what
goodies (or more likely baddies) revengefic me would find if he went to
somewhere like the CIA, for example. It would probably just develop into
a diatribe against the things I love to hate, and I doubt anyone wants
to read something like that. Besides, I still need to finish the series
that Kasumi is revenging me for.

       Still, I liked it.

Thanks! This kind of thing really keeps me going.

       I can! I can call it wish fulfillment (I'd be wrong-- very, very 
wrong, but I could do it).
<sniff> Well, I COULD
:-)

NO! You can't! 'Cause if you do, Kasumi will... <uh oh> ^_^

Thanks for the feedback!


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics