:)  Thanks for the kind words about writing.  I admit to taking the most
chances with this story; I somewhat feared an uprising of vegetarians to
appear at my door with pitchforks and torches.  I also made several
large assumptions that I hoped my readership would forgive; if I tried
to explain and rationalize them all, the story would quickly be bogged
down and lose its focus.  I hoped people would put their "Star Trek"
blinders on. (I mean really; how is it remotely possible that the
transporter works as it does?  Without even a receiving station, no
less.)  I hope for the forgiveness given to most sci-fi works:  In the
future, anything is possible.

Heh, Well, I COULD write five pages on how the transporters work, but I'll 
just say that Trek' has a psuedo-scientific answer to every question you can 
ask. Well, to keep this on topic, I thought the story was... strange, but it 
worked out to be a nice little piece.