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Oh my God.

It's you. Like really you.

Sir, I loved the erevis cale books, and I would love to read more of your stuff.

Much obliged. :-)

I hope you'll check out Egil and Nix, then.

Paul

I hope you dig! I have a blast writing about the Boys from Dur Follin and I very much hope you have a blast reading them. :-)

Paul

AZ,

The change to the release date for Shadowrealm had nothing to do with content issues, just the vagaries of the release schedule. Sorry for the delay. I hope you find it worth the wait.

Paul

I purchased Dungeon issues 117-119 to obtain the Istivin adventures and found that my download of 117 was missing the "Touch of the Abyss" adventure. I've sent an email to custserv, but wondered if anyone else had a similar problem?

Hi all,

I'm Paul S. Kemp, author of "Confession." A poster to my blog pointed me to this thread.

I don't have a lot to add but let me articulate my thinking: One of the primary functions of the first sentence in a piece of short fiction is to grab the reader and set the tone for the story. In this case, the mild expletive did that work (at least as far as I'm concerned). Sure, I could have written, "I sloshed through excrement/sewage/feces/take your pick, up to my ankles" but that, IMO, would not have had the same impact. It has nothing whatever to do with an attempt to shock for its own sake or a lack of a thesaurus.

That some readers dislike and/or are offended by the word choice is unfortunate, but it's also just one of the things you deal with as a writer (and an editor). My writing in general, and this story in particular, is not for everyone. I can live with that.