At 04:25 AM 11/1/97 GMT, you wrote:

			    REVENGEFIC No. 2:
			   HOW NOT TO BE SEEN
				  or
	    Revenge is a Dish Best Served With a Side of SPAM

			     by Gary Kleppe


"Good heavens, no. I manipulated my personal aura. You didn't *notice*
me, even when you were looking directly at me."

"And I could do that? That's what you're offering me?" I imagined what
I'd be able to do with a technique like that, all the secrets I could
learn. And I didn't have much to lose; if she was going to revenge me, I
couldn't stop her anyway. "What do I have to do?"

"Why, nothing! I just need to make a few alterations on your aura.
They'll take effect over time."

        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. 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? ^_^)

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

        Still, I liked it.

Whattaya think? A bit heavy on the melodrama, probably. At least no one
can call it wish fullfillment. :-P

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


	Matt Lewis maybeso@ican.net
Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions. The first is
asked when it is weak: WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? Are you
the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself
to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the
cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion
that would rather break than sway with the breeze? - The kind
that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a
hundred, be smashed to bits; but the hundredth time, will 
change the world.
	"What's the second question?" Gibreel asked aloud.
	Answer the first one first.
		-Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses