So, my latest story is out, and admittedly I should have split it in two. Perhaps, what I had thought of as my "style", should have had an editor fix it? I don't want my writing to be like it just came out of an English Composition class, so maybe somewhere between? I wanted it to portray speakers that were not English or US folk.

It is obvious that my High School English teacher would be having a fit.

Or can it be that the readership just did not want normal, nonviolent Middle Easterners?

A Saudi National that I helped to get to America to go to College told me that only about 27% of Saudi Arabians are even religious, and that up to 30% of them have huge drinking issues. He's graduated now and left to return to the KSA.

I'm 71 now and worried that my brain is shriveling up like a prune. I hope that is not true and that I get the chance to finish my last story before I go round the bend. It'll be around 200,000 words, in six or eight installments.

If someone wishes to beta read it and make suggestions, I have to warn you that I get very emotionally attached to my stories and could cry on you.

Gwen