In The Hidden Valley - Chapter 2

I'm trying to get this done before this evening, because I'm leaving early tomorrow morning to drive over 300 miles to the wedding resort at which my #2 son and his fiancé are getting married. I'm sure it's going to be lovely, and all that, but... well... This past week has been a zoo. I was sick as a dog yesterday and the day before from something I ate that normally doesn't bother me. At least I don't have to drive those 300 miles sick and/or drug out from not being able to sleep.

Anyhoo, here is the second chapter of this. Enjoy.

( In The Hidden Valley - Chapter 2 - Not What Was Expected )

Aearwen's Little Bits - Renamed

This weeks drabble offering:

( Renamed )

Along Came A Spider - Chapter 1

I have been told, by those who know, that the SWG would be a great place to post this. Well, after fighting with their interface, their stripping out of all paragraph breaks and other formatting, their adding extra spaces at the beginnings of lines - and doing so for nearly an hour without success - I have decided that SWG is impossible to work with and not worth the hassle. Sorry guys - you need to talk to the lady in charge and tell her to find some software that WORKS.

And for those who read my ranting last week, this is the beginning of the story I was whining about.

( Along Came A Spider - Chapter 1 - In The Beginning )

Edited to add: I just messed around with SWG again, once more reinserting carriage returns stripped away, margin wierdness, stripping of italics formatting - spent ANOTHER half an hour doing it - and finally got it to look right only to find out that my story will not appear until "approved by a moderator." You know, I REALLY despise having to wait for someone else to say "Yeah, you have a story there," and have to give an official okie-dokie for anybody ELSE to see it. That smacks of control issues on the part of the archive owner to me.

So far, I am seriously under-impressed with SWG. They better have something seriously on the ball there - or this will be the one and only story of mine to ever see light of day there. The hassle, from what I've seen so far, just simply is NOT worth it.