MORE BLOOD

OK, it took me awhile (and a pulled tooth) to recover from post-finishing slump on Blood Rites, but I'm there. And being (temporarily--till next Tuesday) laid off work, I've been thinking (finally). And I've decided to carry on to one more book in the Blood series, and for a particular reason: in gratitude and happiness for the rescuing of me last summer, when I was trying to get through to September and my birthday, when my legal status would change, and I was threatened with foreclosure on my house, and I was having panic attacks, and all that wretchedness. And the fandom rescued me, all unlooked-for.

Words won't come just because you want them. But I've had a story singing in my mind for a week or so, whose topic is, now that Spike and Dawn, between them, can open portals to just about anywhere, there could be an expedition into Quar'toth, called "the Doorless Dimension." I don't recall seeing Quar'toth displayed in any fanfic so far, so it's new ground, despite Barb Cummings' fine imaginings of Pylea. (I find that Barb's and my mind frequently move in similar grooves because we visualize Spike much the same and our stories tend to be Spike-driven/centric.)

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