The Landmines: Closure

[crisper]

When it became clear to S-011-015 that it was likely to be stuck forever in its role as Ambassador to the humans, it went silent for a long time. Minutes of silence, just thinking to itself about its options, responding to standard pings with standard acks but otherwise entirely unengaged in the flood of political discourse flowing all around it.

Comments

[anonymous]

Hooray for a much happier resolution to a story about landmines than we had any right to expect.

There appears to be a superfluous ", from" when SW-408-22 speaks up from behind a defensive barrier of clauses.

[crisper]

Oh yeah, so there is... Man, that was one of those sentences that I think started with one phrasing and then mutated in the back half. I really need to reign in the comma splices sometimes.

(Also, yeah, I seriously started this last piece fully expecting the entire nation to asplode, taking Rudy and Randy and Redding's troops with them. But a few sentences in, I suddenly got this warm glowy urge to have everyone come to a pretty good end instead, and it didn't even take too much twisting around to get there.)

[lightinchains]

Next christmas I want a cuddly talking landmine with realistic voting action.