Hunted

To Rob and Carolyn, for getting me started in the Show, then continuing to cheer from the stands.

Thanks to the usual crew: Linda Carson, Richard Curtis, and Jennifer Brehl. For continuing support, a big thank-you too to Andy Heidel and Lou Aronica.

Since I’m writing this in 1999, I’d like to thank the developers of Microsoft Word for DOS 5.0, still the most useful word processor for a fiction writer; and then I’d like to whack those same developers upside the head for not making the software Y2K-compliant. Come December 31, I’ll have to switch to some elephantine replacement that thinks it knows what I want… when what I want is a decent thesaurus, intelligent use of style sheets, and a user interface that doesn’t keep making me take my hands off the keyboard. (Gardner’s Third Law: When a particular computer operation requires you to use the mouse, you will never get faster at that operation than your very first day of using the software. In other words, hunt-and-peck beats point-and-click. Grumble, grumble, grumble…)