Interesting, indeed. I have begun to wonder the same thing about mine. Although there is one reader who has never reviewed any of the others and reviews every chapter of mine, so I guess it's holding its own. Have you ever heard of any other story written like this? I am aware of those projects which pass around one manuscript and various persons add a chapter but I do not know of any other case in which four have come together to write the same story from varying points of view. Have we invented a new genre of sorts?

I do believe our sub rosa plotting paid off. Paine responded as I so hoped she would. Now they have two more close encounters of the nth kind before the end. ;)