Gwenellen: Good luck with this cathartic project. I'm looking forward to reading it. As much as I like fun stories, it seems like we really need the powerful, risky, heart-and-soul exposing ones too. Hope there is someone you can call if working on it gets weird......As far as "trigger" words or situations go, all you can reasonably be expected to do is give fair warning at the beginning. You can never tell what's going to do it. WARNING! UNHAPPY MEMORIES AHEAD >>>>>> A few months back someone posted a grim, ironic fable on a site like this that ended with a newborn baby dying from neglect. While anyone would react with horror---this was intended---I was suddenly vividly reliving something that had happened to me decades ago (when as the only person around, I helped a homeless friend deliver a baby that came out very, very stillborn; and then to bury him, since our thinking didn't include bringing in the cops, who had no use for us!), that I hadn't thought about in quite a while, and I had no idea would hit me like it did after all this time. I mean I was completely wiped out, like I had to vomit up something huge that wasn't there, and then wound up sleeping for a ridiculous number of hours. You can't anticipate every reader's reaction to every story, it would have taken something like mind-reading for this author to know someone would react like I did. And if she had, to post a warning would have totally wrecked the story, which was a great story, and entirely neccessary. And if I reacted like I did then I probably NEEDED to relive that incident, as unpleasant as the experience was...