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Trick of the Mind
by Maeryn Lamonte
In response to Melanie Ezell's lesser know Other Big Closet Ultimately Forgettable Challenge — The longest and most tedious introduction/disclaimer ever. Back in the days when I used to teach, there was a two week break where I needed to switch off completely from anything to do with classrooms and books and revolting children (they aren't all revolting you understand, just enough to make your life miserable), so I stayed in bed (yes I know it's disgusting, and at my age too. What kind of example is that for the kids?) and wrote the first 70k words of this before running out of time and imagination. |
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A while ago, I sent it to Wren Phoenix for editing/proofing, and she's been prodding me regularly since to finish it and post it. It's an early effort so I'm going to read through and rewrite — where necessary — as I post (hopefully every one to two days). When I reach the end of what's written, things may slow down a bit.
As ever, resemblance of characters in the story to people in real life is purely co-incidental as well as extremely unlikely, since the story is set in a parallel universe where everything is pretty much as it is here, except for matters relating to the legal profession and mental health care, and quite possibly the way hypnotism works. Which is another way of saying that I don't know how things work in our world and I'm too lazy and being paid too little to do research, so I made stuff up. Despite that, I hope you enjoy... |
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Trick of the Mind
I have thoroughly enjoyed this most wonderful roller coaster ride of a story.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Wow
That was amazing. Perhaps not quite as good as You Meant it for Evil, but hard to leave off reading, and impossible not to try to get back to the computer again as soon as possible to finish it.
I know perhaps even less about hypnotism and the UK legal system than you do, but the characterizations were spot on, thoroughly believable in every case.
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Thank you.
I spotted several other inconsistencies other that will be mentioned, but I do not want to be a spoiler. I will probably go back and repost comments after the appropriate chapters. Then again, if this was the UK, never mind.
It no way reduced my enjoyment of the story though, good job.