Strange Noises Fiction by Rachel Greenham

... I think that most of us were confused) when the first chapter of "After A Fall" appeared.

But if you look back at the finale of "Nathan's Story" you will see that he was confused too. His understanding of the situation chez Jane was way wrong - and what we see in that tale was how he came to that conclusion.

In "After a Fall" we see the same story from the "house" perspective - and that shows that Jane was also misunderstanding the situation - and doing so beyond the primary extent of missing or misinterpreting the signals Nathan was sending.

If you've ever worked in or near any sort of legal system, you'd be familiar with hearing two differing (sometimes to the point of opposing) versions of the same event/situation/agreement/discussion/whatever. In a lot of cases (most actually) those views are sincerely held; it's the perception of events that differs.

That's what Rachel has so neatly communicated.

Xi

I have had a bad patch, various middling to nasty things in combination, culminating in the final decline and death of my cat Daisy... oh God, nearly two weeks ago. Following that, my subsequent decision to move house to be closer to my family. (And that is in the very early stages.)

Work is ongoing. As of right now there are a further 15,579 words already written - a bit more than two weeks' worth of releases on the former schedule. I have broken through the writer's block that stopped me before. The thing is, I'm not able to write this story as fast as I'd like, and I'm as fed up as you lot are at doing the start-stop thing. Now I could release what I've got and after two weeks, maybe three, you'll be waiting again. But what I think I'd prefer to do is to actually write all the way to the end and then release it in a guaranteed unbroken sequence.

Related to this, I think I'll be doing that in future. In the past I've let my eagerness to get the stuff out there get the better of me. I think it would be better instead to actually finish at least the first draft before commencing release.

(This may involve a longer... oh wait, your comment, and thus my reply, is to The Taken, and the former relates to Game Theory. Yes, the same basically applies. I'm writing now to get Game Theory finished, then I shall return to The Taken, but I think I may want to actually finish the first draft of that, to the very end, before starting to release further chapters. I have actually written the next two chapters, but it is on hold, but with every intention of continuing it, I promise.

I'm just really sorry that my enthusiasm to get people reading it has meant this delay. I should have finished the first draft first. :-(

...for everything we get, whenever that might be. It is always worth waiting for.

I was particularly pleased that you had broken-through on 'Game Theory' - just sorrowful at what you seem to have gone through to get there.

Moving is hell on wheels - I don't envy you. But then we've been here 35 years (thank-you Mr Williams, don't call us, we'll call you), and sadly we have buried three cats in that time. I grieve for Daisy with you; just as the previous commenter wrote, somehow it was worse than losing my mother, and close to when I lost my brother.

Xi