At 04:17 PM 8/26/96 +0200, you wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Greg Sandborn wrote:

Rumiko Takahashi:
     Please forgive this dark fic.  This story has been
buzzing around in my head for several months.  Only
today was I in enough of a somber mood to attempt it.

That wasn't dark, that was sad.  The difference is that one leaves you 
feeling sick and/or uncomfortable, the other one leaves you with watery 
eyes. 

<sniff>

That was a great fic.  Thanks.

        No, thank *you*.  It took me 3 hours (and 3 cans of Fosters Lager)
to slap this one together.  The critical C&C I've received can confirm
that.  All liked the story but really tore apart the verbage.  (Syntactical
problems, don't you know.)  Hell, I've even started a whole new spam
thread; does a sentence end with a period or comma when followed with a
'he said'.  Frankly, Uncle Fester doesn't much care.  He's still busy
trying to write his way out of a plot hole in his 'Nabiki' series.
(Damn! I hate writer's block.)
        I'll have to try writing something funny now to balance it out.
(Maybe, you could suggest a good German beer for that one.  And NO
Bitburger!  I spent 8 weeks in Fulda once and that stuff was all anyone
served there.  On the other hand, I got hooked on real Cuban cigars at
the same time. [shrug]).


        - Uncle Fester
        (Heading back to the kitchen for another lager.)



P.S.  I've been reading your 'Ranko' series and...ummmm...you see, I
really haven't read the first few chapters so I...don't know how to
ask this....  Is this supposed to be a rewrite of the origional series
with Ranko instead of Ranma?  While reading the latest parts, I've had
this feeling like I shouldn't be here or something.  I mean, the plots
felt like what I have on tape and.....ah.....[gulp].

[In frustration, hands Sebastian Kun-chan's *Bap* stick and bends over.]








Greg Sandborn	(aka: Uncle Fester)

Home on the range at:	sandborn@microlink.net
			sandborn@burnsmcd.com


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