just a small comment. totally unrelated to the story of yours. i agree nepalonmymind is one hell of an analyst but i think that person is a SHE and not a HE. i could be wrong but i have read one more post of hers (i take that liberty for the time being. nepalonmymind, could you verify). well sum_off, i leave it up to you to understand why this is an issue of sorts. anyways as for your story, i did love it. and like everyone else have my complaints on how it ended (or how you ended it). but yeah leaving us all to get our own conclusions or making it our own stories is clever indeed, it's just that we (at least, I am) are too lazy for that kind of mental exercise. how about you post that original ending of yours and we have a chance to find out how close our story got to yours. just a thought. yeah keep writing.