First, I'd like to say my memory is mostly shot, although I have an
uncanny knack for recalling almost anything I've ever read.That's why I
took this as a double shock...

    Octavian: I rushed out to the local Manga store and took a look.

    <Snip>In Chibi-Pop Manga Vol.1 No.1, a short story called "The Coast
Guard" </Snip>

    "The Coast Guard (TCG)" Does, in fact, bear striking resemblance to
'Incompletion'. Ok, fine.. They're almost twins. However, I was not
attempting to plagiarize. 'Incompletion' was just one of the many fics I've
written in the 3 and 4 o'clock AM waste-land the standard college student
calls 'free-time'. The only conclusion that I could draw was I probably
read "TCG" once, then forgot about it, only to semi-rewrite it again a few
days/weeks/?s later. I really want to apologize for this, and I ask you all
to relabel it as an Alt. Universe for 'TCG". Please don't brand me as a
plagiarist for a simple, sleep-hazed mistake. Well, you can, but I am
asking you not to.

    Since I didn't buy that issue of Chibi-Pop, I had no way of verifying
Octavian's claim until I drove 5 miles to get to the dang comic shop. I
didn't want to post this apology on the FFML, since I've already started
enough spam/canon wars for one year.. but the original thread has already
been responded to.

    Again: I want to say 'Incompletion' was not intended to be a 'blatant
rip off', as Chad Walker so kindly put it. Just a mistake. A mistake which,
I might add, is causing me to go through everything else I thought I had
started as an original idea.. The only true Originals I can be sure of are
"ShadowGazer", "That Which Is My Life", and "Enter, Damnnation", and none
of them are even semi-semi-wannabe-completed.

    Sorry for the post and thank you for reading.

            -JJ Corley