The ones we leave behind

[cw5523729]

There will be no one to report my passing. I plan to hang around here as a mischievous ghost, playing tricks and posting spooky emojis. People will blame me for their publishing delays. "My story is stuck pending again. Damn that Simon."

Do we have to wait till you die or can we just start blaming you now?

 

[SimonDoom]

Do we have to wait till you die or can we just start blaming you now?

You figured it out. Wait until Awkwardlyset finds out. I won't hear the end of it.

 

[cw5523729]

You figured it out. Wait until Awkwardlyset finds out. I won't hear the end of it.

See? This whole time all @Laurel needed to shut us up was a scapegoat to blame all the issues on.

"Hey, I'd have gotten all your stories posted if it wasn't for that Simon guy!"

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Having said that I just got news that the tumor is shrinking so you may be stuck with me for a while.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

"Hey, I'd have gotten all your stories posted if it wasn't for that Simon guy!"

In my language, "That's life" sounds like "It's *Man's Name*", so we blame that guy all the time.

 

[cw5523729]

In my language, "That's life" sounds like "It's *Man's Name*", so we blame that guy all the time.

Is "Man's Name" 'Simon'? Please tell me it is. Actually, don't bother, I'm just going to tell myself it is anyway.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'When will my story be published?'

Simon says ... Ask again later.

 

[cw5523729]

'When will my story be published?'

Simon says ... Ask again later.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

We lost a few people rather suddenly in the early 2000s that caused a bit of fuss, but the community here doesn't seem as tight now as it was then. At the time, it seemed we had a group that was very much unusual in how much we knew and cared about each other "off the page." I don't know how much that exists anymore, since if it is really still here I'm on the outside looking in.

I don't see the tightness here either. Sure, there are a few tight friends here and there, but this isn't a community in the full sense of the word. It's something I already pointed out a couple of times.