[Wow... how tired was I when I posted this originally? Tired enough to do all the markup wrong... ]

As you can see from its initial date stamp and overall setting, Interlude at the Hotel Monolith takes place after Christmas 2405. However, it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to finish Another Christmas Rose for a Christmas release, and I wanted to put something out today if I could - it's traditional in my family to open one present on Christmas Eve.

As it happens, Interlude at the Hotel Monolith was the second Interlude to more or less explode out of my head, confirming what Interlude at Bancroft Tower No. 1 had already made fairly apparent to me - that Corwin's being smitten with Utena was going to be a lot more serious (and a lot more reciprocal) than I had originally thought. It's been more or less complete for six months, ever since that initial one-night explosion, but for some fit, finish and polish work, which I've done over the past few days when I should have been working on ACR.

So, what the hell. It didn't confuse anyone too badly when the Exile stories jumped around between decades; let's see if I can skip part of a week without making too many people fall off the bus. :)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Thanks for the Christmas persent Gryph!

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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

...Oh...

THANK YOU!!!

Heh , this puppy made my Christmas Eve complete Gryph .
'Nuff said , bye now , gotta get over to the tree for
<shudder> traditional family festivities .

Oh well .

-Griever
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- Almost, at times, the Fool."