The other day I got a message from ZanarNaryon telling me they had created a TVTropes page for To Serve In Hell. Now, TVTropes can be a dangerous place to start reading, unless you have a few hours to spend getting lost in it. But if you want to check it out, please do! It’s a delight seeing the whole thing laid out like an actual story on there!
I know. "Again? Who cares! It's cut stuff from an old fic!"
I've realized something, though, as I've been gathering this up: I'm doing this for me. I'm laying something to rest. I'm letting go of a lingering sense of what might-have-been, which in its own way is a part of the story of what ended-up-being.
Maybe it's even the last part of the story.
As I mentioned last time: there's a mountain of cut content from To Serve In Hell, including some nuggets that I very much regretted having to take out. I've already shared a couple of those stronger moments with you, and discussed the thought process that lead to both adding and ultimately removing them.
To Serve In Hell generated over 20,000 words of cut content, representing more than a fifth of its final length. Not all of it is fit for presentation. However, a few bits still strike me as memorable or interesting, and I'd like to take a moment to share a couple of them.
There are spoilers ahead... but at this point I figure most people who are going to read Hell have already done so. For anyone else, maybe this'll spark some interest?
Yesterday was the first anniversary of Hell’s completion. True to form, I sat down a couple days ago to write something deep, significant, and retrospective. And just as true to form, that effort flamed-out into a hangdog bloodletting of pain and trauma which no one frankly needs to read.
To Serve In Hell is getting a sequel. Jump through the mirror for a chance to learn more.
Foreshadowing!
Just posted the end of To Serve In Hell. 
I've got more stories in the pipeline, of course, but right now... I'mma go collapse for a while. 
Love you guys. 
To Serve In Hell comes back again tomorrow for its final run.
Five days.
Five chapters.
This is it, people. The veil is about to be thrown off. And I am terrified as hell by what lies underneath.
However dark it gets, know that it could so easily get darker.
Not everypony is making it out alive, but I will not do anything cheap to these wonderful and awful ponies who I've had the privilege of writing this long.
Book 3 of To Serve In Hell ends today with Chapter 28. We're now about ~67K words deep, and we still have Book 4 plus the Epilogue to go.
If you need a chance to catch up on any of that, have I got a deal for you! 
...because To Serve In Hell is back in the morning!
Nope, no grim portents here
Book 3 kicks off tomorrow. Book 4 lies beyond. But for tonight, enjoy a lullaby: the story's unofficial theme song. This one never fails to get me in the mood for Hell. 
As it turns out, our family will be traveling over much of the Thanksgiving week. And while I hate to leave people hanging... the truth is that I do, in fact, love a good cliffhanger. My hope is that you’ll feel Book 2 of To Serve In Hell ends with that.
So: updates will take one full week’s break due to the holiday. Look for Book 3 to begin with Chapter 20 on November 26th.
I'm not sure how many times I repeated the phrase, "One chapter a day, every day, starting Halloween," during Ciderfest this past weekend. But Halloween is Wednesday.
That means To Serve In Hell is coming back in just 48 hours. 
October 31st is not just Halloween, but the day To Serve In Hell returns.
Basic facts:
“When this is over, I will see her burn for what she’s done.”
— Wind Rider
These last few weeks have been overwhelming, and not just from the busyness of the new house. In trying to make something of “a nu start” here, I've been diving head-on into some old anxieties, which is never entirely smooth.
After years of hemming and hawing followed by months of total insanity, me and mine are finally done moving house. Naught remains but the twin eternities of opening boxes and waiting for the Internet to be hooked up. Until then, I'll be subsisting as best as possible on cellular data and whatever housewares I can find.
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