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A Reader Requests a Sequel to My Short Story “Save Me Plz”

May 12, 2008 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

Here’s a really nice note I received recently from a reader about my story “Save Me Plz”:

The ending is so incredibly sad it makes me want to cry and save Meg; the story as a whole is miraculously awesome! You’re an extremely talented writer. I’d love to see a sequel with a ‘happily every after’ ending, but I know that those can be cheesy :]

Thanks! I will almost certainly never write a sequel story in which Meg is rescued from her predicament and in which everything is resolved happily and tied up neatly at the end, but it occurred to me that if I did, I could call the story, “K Thnx Bai.”

Or maybe not.

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David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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