Thank you so much. It was a brilliant story, just what I had been hoping for without even knowing it, and totally worth the wait. (Plus, hey, by guessing your story last year, I prepped you to write my pinch hit this year. Obviously, I am a Deep Plotter, and I will never confess that it was totally unintentional. This way, I look sleek and smart and absolutely together!)

And thank you for claiming my scary, scary prompts. Um. You said you liked them, so I will not apologize, but know that I am taking a Remedial Prompts course, and next year I will do much, much better.

(And, uh, that I left my macro-generated = End = thingy on there and made it kind of even more pathetically obvious, cough.)

That was nearly your downfall. I figured out three of your stories this year, and if I could only have found the fourth before the reveal, you would have ended up writing my pinch hit next year, too. *grins*

Ah, well. There's always next year. *Yuletide-enhanced hugs*

(And a happy new year!)