So mom usually won the choice of going first. Sharon really didnt mind because she was usually out late on Friday night, and slept late anyway. She ne...ded her eight hours. She also didnt have to wait long because by the time she would wake up, Id just about be done with mom. If Sharon got up early, she would sit around waiting for her turn with just her bathrobe having a cup of coffee, going over yesterdays mail. Sometimes shed sit in the darkened TV room opposite the dining room just relaxing. As a Goth, she thought it was so stereotypical that she loved Halloween but she couldn’t help it. Even as an 18 year-old teenager, there was something about dressing up and giving and getting candy that she just adored. As she walked into the school parking lot to her car, she heard a voice off to her side call out ‘Hey Winnie Pooh.’ Winifred looked towards the direction of the voice, rolling her eyes as she did so because she knew just who that voice belonged to. She confirmed her suspicion. , etc.?(Tigger) I think that there has been an improvement in quality over the years, and in the last two years, a lot of that is thanks to Mindy's Fictionmania and Nifty, authors are getting a forum and an audience for those stories. That encourages folks to keep making the effort!Then we have writers like Vickie Tern, the Professor, yourself, Brandy Dewinter and Ellen Hayes writing stories that are stories FIRST and TG second! I mean, I'd used to be happy with a story that I'd written when it. It turned out to be a doddle. That might be a word that only Mom and a few other people know, so I'll explain that it was a cakewalk (I hope that helps). We finished writing all the answers (using pens in both hands) in about twenty minutes. I double-checked the answers fruitlessly for another ten minutes, which was probably excessive for a double-check, but I was determined to do well. [When writing with both hands the paper tended to drift around without the second hand holding it, so I had.