I never plugged GhostOfHeraclitus' wonderful 500-word story, "Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen", which he posted in 2016. Probably because Ghost sneakily published it in horizon's Never the Final Word anthology.

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I've been having a rocky restart. Since posting "The Mailmare", my story views have been going downhill, and my live watcher count even more so. "Displacement" brought me 500 views and maybe 1 new watcher, even after being on EQD. I know it sounds spoiled of me to be discontented with that, but I have a good reason: I'm spoiled. I used to get at least 3000 views for a story on EQD, and 1 new watcher per 100 views.

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I just posted "The Gathering", another one of those stories (like "Elpis", "Big Mac Reads Something Purple", "The Mailmare", "Moments", "Friends, With Occasional Magic", and the forthcoming "Anonymous Dreams") that go to a sad place but end on a hopeful or happy note. There's no way to tag that on fimfiction, because we don't have a "Hopeful" tag.

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