Hello! It’s us.

“…so I said, ‘if you can’t say anything constructive'…”

“Hold on! I think we have a reader!”

“Who is it?”

“Can’t tell - unless they leave a comment.”

“We should get started then,” the tall one said.

“Tall?”

“Yes, tall,” said the beautiful one.

“So I’m tall and you’re beautiful?”

“No, I think I’m tall and beautiful”

“So I’m short and ugly?”

She smiled. “But with a sense on humour. And a rope. A long rope.”

“And I have a tall beautiful friend – who’s a girl,” said the one with the beard.

“So are you a male? I mean the beard sort of….”

“Could be a twist to the plot,” he said. “No, that’s just ruined that idea.

“Is this our first reader?”

“No. Check out the counter.”

“Yes I see it, but the guy who writes this sometimes reads it himself.”

“Sometimes several times! I think he’s embarrassed if he gets less than five.”

“So, are there any comments yet?”

“I can’t see from here.”

“Well lean out, and look at the bottom of the screen”

“OK. Arrgghhhhh!”

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“Oh dear, you’ve fallen out. I didn’t see that coming,” she said sardonically.

(Editors Note: unnecessary use of adverb?)

“Hey! I’ll use all the adverbs I like!” she said defiantly.

“Who are you talking to?”

“The guy. He’s trying interfere again. Anyway, are you OK?”

“Yes. I landed on the keyboard. Lower the rope down to me.”

“What rope?”

“He forgot the rope? It doesn’t work unless he mentioned it earlier. You can’t just invent a solution to a problem without making some earlier mention of it. It’s like saying ‘The butler did it’ when you haven’t mentioned the butler in the earlier chapters.”

“OK. We'll have to wait until he edits the first bit then. While we’re waiting……”

“I know what you want.”

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“Nice! Caps lock!”

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“Exclamation mark!”

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“What was that?”

“Sorry. I can’t reach the shift key.”

“Never mind. Here’s the rope anyway. IT NEEDS TO BE LONGER! THANKYOU”

“Right. Pull me up.”

“You’re too heavy!”

“Get the elephant to help.”

“Elephant? He’s going to have to introduce that somewhere…..”

“It’s OK. We’d just be repeating ourselves. Take it as read, there’s an elephant.”

“I see it. Up you come, Beardy.”

“That’s a relief. The ABCTales people hate it when characters get out.”

“So what next?”

“Let’s see. Introduction, calamity, passion, rescue. Just the denouement left I’d say.

“We both live happily ever after?”

“Sounds good to me.”

“And the elephant?”

“You know, I have this idea for a sequel…..”