Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 02:05:32 -0600 Message-Id: <9702160805.AA18595@popalex1.linknet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: "J. Rowland" Subject: Because I Love You, Goodbye; Author's Notes This story, originally written as a four page vignette in April of 1995, was posted to the QL Archive in September of that year (and published in the on-line magazine InterFace). Later, after much prompting by friends and family who felt that there should be more to the story (and after having the ideas bouncing around in my own head), I wrote the rest of the story, which appeared in slightly altered form in the QL Fanzine, LEAPS AND FISHES I: To Write What Once Went Wrong (1996). As with all things, I'd like to thank God first and foremost for the gifts He's given to me. Secondly, I'd like to thank Jenni B. for prompting me in 1995 to share this story on the 'Net, Kat Freymuth for urging me to post the rest of it here in the Archive, my mom for her wonderful support of my writing, and my best friends for prompting me to go on and write the rest of it!! I hope you enjoy "Because I Love You, Goodbye," though I'm sure you can tell from the title that it is not a "happy" story. Blessings, Jennifer L. Rowland ******************************************************************** J. Rowland <>< tigger@popalex1.linknet.net "Non, non," il dit, "non, C'est pas tout vrai, J'ai pleine de richesses dedans mon coeur Que tu peux pas acheter." --Michael Doucet, "La Danse de la Vie" ("No, no," he answered, "no, That's not at all true, I'm full of riches in my heart That you can never buy.") Matthew 6:19-21 ********************************************************************