Thank you so much! This book, being a sequel to my current WIP, is somewhat of a baby and it means so much that y'all like it. I honestly entered it only for fun, so I feel incredibly blessed with your comments.

but this time I inadvertently hit the vote button and did not realize until I finished the story that the slip of the finger was not a mistake.

Great Job!

Bleak, cold dying world, diseased nearing it's end. Wow! So graphic.
Voted

I'm worried about your writing style; how in the world someone can compete with that?
Just joking, but your writing is dazzling. Excellent! and my vote is gone to you....

There is a precision in your writing that defies description, a mastery of plotting and the building of words into images that leaves me taking deep gasps of breath.
This piece is the art of the short story at its absolute finest. I am nearly speechless. Of course my vote.

I've put one up also. Read it and let me know what you think.