Bob Schroeck wrote: 

Gary wrote:

That was a nice uplifting story!
But what it needs is a real shock ending.
Like this one:
      Told you so.
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Sorry, Keener. This was just my way of saying, "I'M @#$%#$ TIRED OF IT
ALWAYS BEING AKANE!!!"
Comments welcome; flames will be laughed off.

	Gary? I think you missed the point. That story was my response to an
increasingly longer and longer thread about what it would take for Ranma
to kill Akane. That's why I didn't put in any of her mannerisms (no Baka
refernece, hammers, cooking, kawikune or anything) into this beast she
had become. And it would take something like this beast AND the shock of
his mother's death to give him the strength to do the right thing, which
was end what had become a hellish existence for both of them. As my
final judgement on the matter, Ranma could not kill her without
following her...thus the use of the suicide blast.

	Was it grammatically incorrect? Yes! Were there horrendous
misspellings? Yes! Was it well thought out? Not really, the idea struck
me this morning and it took an hour to write, after ignoring sleep for
the past couple of days. Am I guilty of Akane-bashing? NO!!!
 

How about this?  That appendum turned a story I didn't save into one I
wish I'd kept...  as it is, I'm keeping this, as there's enough context
that it almost stands on its own...

	Hmmmmmm, apparently the public consensus is to not so much toss the fic
out as to give it to a "REAl" fic writer. Sigh, if that's the case the
so be it. Gary? If you want it (I can't see how you would, you have MORE
then enough good ideas on your own) it's yours.

	Sorry I couldn't meet your standards Bob...