I started frequenting EA in 1996 back when it had about 100 stories and a primitive forum that periodically erupted into flame wars for ridiculous reasons. To help nurse the fledgling site along I began writing stories and posting them in the archives. At the risk of being attacked for shameless ...

I want to thank the archives editors for restoring all my stories. The last one showed up today and they all have never looked better. Perhaps now I'll be inspired to write some more as soon as the massive project of proof reading and editing all 10,000+ archived stories is complete.

~ Intrepid aka ...

Considering that EA has always been free and volunteer operated, I have never been particularly critical of the archives - although there have been issues for both readers and authors over the years. For instance, during one period of time the last paragraph or so of submissions would sometimes get ...

I agree totally with dfinder. The Blog is one of the best written and most imaginative stories posted on EA in a very long time. Besides the good features already mentioned, I was impressed that the author effectively changed "voices" and realistically simulated blog threads and posts to the extent ...