Dear Otter Fans- Some of you have written me asking me to put all of the last Otter Story Chapters together, and to mail them to you as a single document. I would be happy to do that, but I am having some *major* computer problems at the moment. The hubby and I are pricing new ones. This old Gateway needs to be taken out and humanely destroyed. You are of course welcome to put them together yourselves, if you can find someone willing to do the hunting and coallating. Look on Sep. 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, and 23rd. I am sorry my computer problems caused the story to come out at such irregular intervals. I am sorry hoomins are such buttheads. There is a beautiful bit of Otter *River* visible from Rt. 2 in central MA, between the exits for Templeton and Gardner. It is essentially the only part of the river so marshy that contractors can't build on it. Follow it north and you come to the 'town' of Otter River which is made up of derililect mill buildings and the seediest, creepiest resedential hotel that I have ever seen. It winds up farther north into a superfund clean up site that is mostly a cracked, weathered asphalt parking lot(for the workers who needed to park at a long defunct industrial business.) It is surrounded by a mean looking chain link fence and posted with many warning signs. There are no otters there, none. It makes me want to cry every time I see it. Alexandra [Posted in FML issue 5376]