1 [Report This]Date: March 28, 2023 05:36 am Title: Chapter 1
VERY clever! I usually prefer given names at the beginning of a story, but I can see why it was necessary to omit this. Good one!
Author's Response: Thank you! I went through a phase of trying to be tricky. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
1 [Report This]Date: July 10, 2021 01:26 pm Title: Chapter 1
I've always really liked this one - you did a really good job making the twist clear on second read without cheating. It's clever!
Author's Response: Ah, thank you! It was a fun scenario to play with. I have a number of those “really about something else” pieces and I tried to to cheat!
Date: February 05, 2007 10:42 am Title: Chapter 1
haha, thats awesome.
Author's Response: Why, thank you! I wish we could get rid of them both so easily!
Date: October 25, 2006 04:05 pm Title: Chapter 1
Effing genius, lis!
Author's Response:
Hee, thanks!
10 [Report This]Date: October 25, 2006 11:13 am Title: Chapter 1
WOW. I so did not see that twist coming at all! I thought she was coming from Pam's wedding and was going to tell him Pam backed out. This is brilliant! Wow. I'm still sitting here grinning like an idiot. Aw. I like Roy; I kinda like Karen. Yes, this is what should happen. :o)
Author's Response: It would be a convenient way to give them both their own happily-ever-after, right? Hee. Thanks! I'm glad you liked it (and that you have the whole evening to read and write!).
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 11:11 pm Title: Chapter 1
I loved this. Love the twist, love the dialogue, love you.
Author's Response: Awww, love you too! I'm glad the dialogue comes across OK; I knew it would be overshadowed by the twist, but I still wanted it to sound right, you know?
Date: October 24, 2006 10:21 pm Title: Chapter 1
Wow, I totally smirked to myself at this late hour reading this when I got to the end. Nice surprise ending.
Author's Response: Thank you so much!
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 08:25 pm Title: Chapter 1
AHGHGH! I loved it. Totally threw me for a loop... PERFECT!
Author's Response: Wow, thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 07:42 pm Title: Chapter 1
You got me too! I thought the female was Jan who had come from watching Michael marry Carol - but I couldn't figure out at all who the guy was. Karen and Roy - what a great pairing! Very well done!
Author's Response: Thank you! I hope that after the "reveal" it does sound like Roy a little bit, right? :) Glad you liked it.
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 06:18 pm Title: Chapter 1
Aha! you got me! that was a great suprise ending, good job.
Author's Response: Thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 04:52 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh, a pairing I never thought of! You caught me by surprise!
Author's Response: Yay, I love being tricky! :)
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 03:38 pm Title: Chapter 1
Ha! I was trying to figure out who it would be, and Roy never even entered my mind! I'd love to read more of this scenario, it's verrry interesting
Author's Response:
Thanks!
6 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 02:06 pm Title: Chapter 1
OOh, I fell for that one! Niiiiice. Good work!
Author's Response: Gotcha! Hee, thank you so much.
Date: October 24, 2006 01:24 pm Title: Chapter 1
awww yeeeaaaah.
Author's Response: Thank you!!
9 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 12:54 pm Title: Chapter 1
That was fun! I was hoping it was Roy and not Jim! I like that Karen and Roy think they are more right for Jim and Pam than those 2 are for each other because that is so realistic.
Author's Response: Thanks! Ahh, "realistic"? Really? MY fic? I don't ever feel that way. Thank you!
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 12:27 pm Title: Chapter 1
Ah! Awesome.
Author's Response: Thanks!
8 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 12:25 pm Title: Chapter 1
Very clever and so glad that it was Roy and karen.
Author's Response: Thank you, as always!
Date: October 24, 2006 12:24 pm Title: Chapter 1
The tortured soul in me kept thinking poor Jim as I read this - because I was conditioned into it but you managed to twist this around so perfectly.
After reading this I'm going to imagine Karen would have a thing for both cute funny guys like Jim and the more rugged blue collar types - like cops or firemen.
As long as she ultimately picks the latter she and I will get along just FINE. LOL!
Author's Response:
Amen! Hee. (Stay away from our boy, Karen!)
I was trying really hard to make the identity of the guy ambiguous but not actually have him sound too much like Jim. I hope it was conditioning and not, you know, bad writing that got ya. :) Thank you!!
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 11:03 am Title: Chapter 1
To quote Ms. Beesly, I did not expect that! Seriously, didn't see it coming, but how perfect. Very clever - and it has the added bonus of meaning Jim and Pam are married...kind of a two for one deal!
Author's Response:
Thank you! See, these two find some solace, Jim and Pam get married, and we get to enjoy the story- win, win, win!
Date: October 24, 2006 10:23 am Title: Chapter 1
ZING!!!! Nicely done. Very nicely done.
Author's Response:
Thank you very much.
8 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 10:16 am Title: Chapter 1
Great pairing, Lis! You should post a link to this at the LJ office_romances community (contact me if you need the link).
Strange women rarely bought him drinks, particularly pretty ones...
Liked that a lot. Interesting, too, that Karen went and Roy didn't. I also wonder how Karen would have finished this:
"...And now he’s married to someone who can’t possibly..."
Author's Response:
Thanks! I think it was a pride thing for Karen to go and witness it to prove she could take it, and to punish herself for not speaking up. (I have very definite opinions about the psyche of this character we barely know, don't I?). And just like Roy thinks Jim is "so wrong" for Pam, I suspect Karen thinks Pam can't possibly make Jim as happy as she, herself, could. And now this reply is longer than the fic itself... :)
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 10:15 am Title: Chapter 1
GAH! Loved this. I really didn't see this coming, so kudos to you. So well done.
Author's Response: Thank you! I love trying to be sneaky.
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 10:10 am Title: Chapter 1
Oh, Lis, you know how to make me happy. :-)
A very nice thought!!!
Author's Response: My pleasure, Ms. Moxie.
10 [Report This]Date: October 24, 2006 10:04 am Title: Chapter 1
I'm still giddy about the sneak preview! And of course, I do love to procrastinate. You know I love this and so here's the all important review for you! Hee!
Author's Response: Ha! Thank you, thank you! Thanks for the help and for the ego-boosting review, of course!