An archive is a PERMANENT repository for some kind of information. The so-called "Fiction Archive" is no archive. Stories which had been included in it have been deleted. This nullifies its function as an archive.

If you are going to edit it periodically and delete stories for no specified reason ...

Links are fine, and I am sure many will go to look.

River

That's news to me. When I tried the first link I was told that the file does not exist. When I tried the second one I was told that the blogger has been removed. What is the magical incantation which I have to recite to make them work ?

Some of it does come with age, as well. I have good bone density and I am 1,5 inches shorter now than when I was 20. Disc compression...



I can second that. I also have good bone density for my age, but have lost 2.5 inches in height, having gone from 71 in., for most of my adult life, to 68.5 ...

No, Riverwind, I don't think that you had made that clear previously. You had made a point of exaggerating the singer's weight, and I had thought that was your main objection to opera. As I said, there's no disputing about tastes.

Do YOU here the siren, Chocolate.

I do.

I'm a chocoholic. It seems I have some very ancient company.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110401/sc_livescience/sweettradingchocolatemayhavelinkedprehistoriccivil izations

"Roughly 1,000 years ago, residents of pueblos in the American southwest ...

The previous post should have been titled "@turtle 12"

No, believe me, you weren't. I'm not bragging, but I found it to be an uncomfortably snug fit.

"NON SVM QVALIS ERAM" - QVINTVS HORATIVS FLACCVS

Evidently, it has been a LONG time since Riverwind attended a live opera performance. Most of today's soprani are svelte and sexy. Even in the Golden Age of bellowing behemoths, there were slim soprani, such as Geraldine Farrar and Amelita Galli-Curci. And, even in those days, opera audiences didn't ...

I have gotten old, 81.75 years, so I feel qualified to offer advice (not that I wouldn't anyway) . I don't see any complaint about pain. If you're fairly free of it, you're not old yet. When your body becomes a human barometer and you wake up aching all over because it's raining, you'll have arrived ...

Alright

I admit that I was considering the body only, not the personality. Those whom claim to be a woman trapped in a man's body or vice versa have a valid point there. The writers of the Upanishads in ancient India knew that the person is not the body.

Those who deride as "the ghost in the ...