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I'm relieved I was able to take it down deliberately, w/ warning ahead to the members & users, rather than its simply degrading technologically & disintegrating. *g* That would've happened at some point & I wouldn't have been able to fix it because no tech skills, me. I only barely managed, after a lot of reading & trying stuff out, to get it up & running in the 1st place (to my astonishment then & now!).

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Counterpoise (2275 words) by Zeke Black
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magnificent Seven (TV)
Relationships: Chris Larabee/Ezra Standish
Characters: Chris Larabee, Ezra Standish, Vin Tanner, Josiah Sanchez, Nathan Jackson, J. D. Dunne, Buck Wilmington
Additional Tags: Old West, POV Chris Larabee
Summary:

Chris has a firm plan for how he intends to spend the evening. Unfortunately, the rest of the Seven has entirely different intentions.

I feel impelled to post just because it's a holiday for BC Day today & a rare chance to use my icon featuring the BC provincial flag. *g*

Another warm, sunny day in a summer of record drought while the province burns.

( Wildfires )

I can't get warm today! Which is a strange complaint to have on such a day. Current temperature here in the city is 23C (73F), which is about average for us at this time of year. I've turned off my fan & am wearing my warmest sweater, which is just bizarre. I'm hoping to stave off a cold since that seems to be the only possible reason I could be freezing. I was fine yesterday.

In better news: I've written a fic! A complete story, over 2000 words. As w/ all my recent fare, a very thin, not-much idea, but at least it's an idea I got yesterday & actually managed to write in its entirety last evening. Today I'm reading it over & editing. I've done the US spellcheck & have just run the Smart-Edit scan in PageFour, which catches repeated phrases & repeated words. The story's so short that the phrase scan has managed to find little repetition, so that was an easy edit!

The most repeated word is, lol, "smoke"! 7 uses in 2100 words. None are changeable, though, so they'll all stay. Next 2 most common words are 5 instances each of "bar" & "whiskey". I bet you can now guess what fandom it's in. :)

I'll probably post it later, though I dislike the ending. Not the whole ending, just the all-important final line. I try to go out w/ a bang, not a whimper, but creativity is still mostly eluding me.

If I can't think of a better final line while editing, I'll keep trying & will edit the story after posting if I come up w/ something better in the next few days. I usually edit bits & pieces after posting as better phrases occur to me on rereading & reflection. Even when I take days to edit something & let it sit for weeks, I still somehow find stuff to improve--hence edit--after posting.

I hope you all had enjoyable weekends!