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Alistair Young

Sep 19, 2014

For sundry reasons which are assuredly of no interest to you, gentle readers, I have been granted an abundance of writing time, something which for the past year and a half I have been eking out in dribs and drabs here and there.

So, this weekend notwithstanding, you should hopefully be able to expect the fic-a-day schedule to return to something rather more like the -a-day schedule that I was on back in ’12.

And there was much rejoicing?

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