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Mark D's avatar

Bravo! Great ending. I half-expected this 10 part series to disappear from Substack, leaving us to wonder if it ever existed at all.

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Ruben Bix's avatar

That might happen, I've been feeling a bit lukewarm on the substack experience but thank you for helping to keep my spirits up with all your comments and support. I really appreciate it.

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Lynn Cady's avatar

I really had no idea how it would end, but now I see that of course this was the only way it could end. Time for a sad bourbon.

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Mark D's avatar

What about the graphic? In relation to the story I guess it means the whole scheme goes up in smokes. However, in relation to our current times , I think our author might be subconsciously emoting the horrors in Palestine. I feel it too. I am literally losing sleep over the atrocities against the Palestinians. I have been a donor to Doctors Without Borders for over 20 years. Now their doctors are being sniped by IDF with American bullets as they run out of the bombed hospitals. WTF

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Ruben Bix's avatar

I said before I wasn't going to do illustrations for the last two chapters and I wasn't going to but the comment you made after chapter eight made me change my mind. I tried to be ambiguous with the city on fire. Which city is it? Is it a foreign city or a domestic one? And there's the color scheme which I admit has a bit too much yellow. I drew the picture but you have to draw your own conclusions.

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Mark D's avatar

You’re right I did draw my own conclusions about the sketch based on where my perspective is at the moment. I notice the red and blue motif repeated. It is open for political interpretation.

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