I think I'm going to give you a mixed bag, Harold. I prefer stories to be posted in their entirety, because often I will lose the thread of installment tales. On the other hand, stories that go over 200k cause me to pause and think whether I really want to invest that much time at one sitting.

I felt just the opposite of what some of your reviewers said. Until chapter three, I had no intention of reviewing your story, but the final installment pushed it into the "must-read" category for me. I do agree with you, though, that it really belongs on a different site (and, no, I have no suggestions for where to place it).

Aside to Moggy: I was under the impression that 25k was five thousand words. This was based on information from a book on codes and ciphers that is probably thirty years old now. Do you have a source for your estimate of four thousand words, or is that a gut feeling?