I'm glad to see you've decided to continue this story, and eagerly await Memo 3.

The memo format is a nice twist, and not without precedent: Samuel Richardson more or less introduced the novel format to the English language in 1740 with a book written entirely as letters.

The title? "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded."

(I remember reading it in a collegiate English class, but I can't say anything good about the plot. To our 20th and 21st Century sensibilities, it's veeeery creepy.)

Author's Response: Thanks for all the recent and kind reviews! Northsider, I actually used the "memo format" for two reasons; first, I write a lot of memos in my job, so this was very natural to me. Second, I was emulating a book I loved from the 1970's, "A Woman of Independent Means", which was written as a series of letters. Callisto, I spelled Jim's name differently in two places since I can see a busy executive doing that quite easily (happens to me all the time).

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Heh! Verrrry clever, and a good start. Can't wait to see where you take this...

Given what you're doing, if you haven't read Christopher Moore's "Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend," you must. Trust me on this.