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Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      It's a good thing this guy can't see all the ghosts tromping through his joint. I mean, that's gotta be a health code violation.

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      A couple more ghosts, Jolene, and you can start a baseball team.

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Y'know, if anyone around here was gonna quote Batman, I wouldn't've guessed it'd be Malvolio. That little monster has hidden depths, apparently...

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I sense some shenanigans may be in the offing.

The Terebinth Story Archive      Wardell's last line there may be the furthest any of us around here have ever reached while trying to make a joke. I'm surprised no one pulled a muscle.

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Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      As we conclude the first week of the chapter, that's all the plotlines visited, isn't it? Yes, I think it is.

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      That guy might actually be a greyhound for all I know...

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      How many times do I have to explain this, Coil? Giggling kinda spoils to the whole "hardboiled dialogue" thing!

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents

The Terebinth Story Archive      I can only assume that somebody somewhere has made a joke about that most argumentative of simians, the harangutan. But I'm not gonna do it here.

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 2, the 98th storyline overall, is "Jurisprudence." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And so we start chapter two! Let's see how many more ghosts we can get following around after Jolene, shall we?

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Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 1, the 97th storyline overall, is "Evidentiary." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      We'll pick up our three plots when chapter two, "Jurisprudence," convenes on Monday. Should I survive the weekend, I mean: I'll be popping over to Equestria LA , the My Little Pony convention going on in Anaheim. So I'd say I've got a fifty-fifty chance.

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 1, the 97th storyline overall, is "Evidentiary." The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Winding up chapter one today and tomorrow with three plotlines stretched out over four pages. Ah, mathematics...

So:      Volume 32 of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology is out for public consumption, and once again, I've got a story about Cluny the Sorceress Squirrel in it.      This is the tenth consecutive volume to sport a magical squirrel story from me and the 12th story in the overall series. I continue pretending that I'll actually glue the first eight stories together with a bunch of interstitial material to produce a book that chronicles Cluny, Crocker and Shtasith's frosh year at Huxley College, and I invite you to play along with my delusion.      Seriously, though, I've gotten to Spring Break of Cluny's frosh year in the collected edition and am currently laying out a big party scene during which several things will occur with characters who mostly haven't appeared in the published short stories. So someday...            ...

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 1, the 97th storyline overall, is "Evidentiary." The Daily Grind Table of Contents

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 1, the 97th storyline overall, is "Evidentiary." The Daily Grind Table of Contents

Book XVII is Spellbound and Chapter 1, the 97th storyline overall, is "Evidentiary." The Daily Grind Table of Contents