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Acknowledgements

Nobody writes a decent story by themselves.

These stories, decent and otherwise, wouldn’t exist without the wisdom of the members present and past of the Cecil Street Irregulars workshop and the Gibraltar Point sf workshop; without the guidance of ChiZine’s editors/publishers Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi most recently, and editors Don Hutchison, Michael Rowe and Robert Morrish earlier in the game. And they’d be no good without family. My parents Lawrence and Olga offered nothing but love and support in a long sequence of thumbs-up to these stories; if they wondered about the content, they — mostly — kept it to themselves. My brother Peter read, and reads, them dutifully. My long-lost cousin Joe tracked me down just last year, and unwittingly spurred me on to write “The Webley.”

It is true. Nobody writes a decent story by themselves.