Lost Cherry

Sorry, me again.. You may be correct, Liana, but if you are it means that editor 73 has had - or should have had - around six messages over the past eleven days and ignored the lot. Ho hum.. The system may have been changed recently, because Diana e-mailed me a week ago to assure me that ONLY the original editor could restore cherries. (Hence the delay.) But, I've always corrected my stories, and never lost a cherry until a month or so ago when they began to vanish on a regular basis. Rhys - I know your story was cherried, because it was one of the first I read when I found the site. We can only act like mature adults: scream, shout and throw our toys out of the playpen until somebody notices! That's what I intend to do. For the moment, I can only advise anyone with a cherry to hang on to it - for God's sake, don't risk editing anything.

Roy, Rhys et al, It is a matter of importance I now acknowledge to have this unmentionable fruit attached to one's art. Let us play and hope they return. But if for example one entered a piece here entitled: The Lost Cherry Then proferred some lines, for instance: The invisble worm flies in tonight at approximately 4am so I'm told by our site manager- what Sinea threat is it that wants to knaw our on-line shopping, corkscrew our interactive porn Your Information is sure to be safe impeach the White House-just so long as you patch the hole provided by microsoft. I may sit up and wait, with my sick rose at the ready like a New Year's eve vigil. Can this not be the end of it and we cherry ourselves or even invent other fruits maybe on a scale representing rotten to ripe. What fruit is bad? Say a tomato! Yes I give this piece a tomato. EDITOR 73 sends an email informing the unlucky writer that their work has been tomato pulped. toodle pip...

Roy, You now have your cherry back. Sorry for the delay. Cheers Emily

Thank god for that. Now what will Roy rant about now? :-)

He's gonna want interest at 2% ! I have to agree about the pip post though, what IS that all about?

Deal All I lost my cherry when I was fifteen. Her name was Donna. As in Kebab. Ta Ta Ralph

Well, well, well, youre the second person in three days to bewail a lost cherry! I have it on what I am assured is good authority that dear old MYB is chief cherry master and he's apparently on holiday, (no doubt somewhere in the garden of England working hard on the cherry harvest). Anyhow I can't help with the cherry but if you send me your address I'll have a couple of pounds of apples sent round!

Rhys To get back your cherry you have to email abctales and tell them the number of editor who cherrypicked your story. It will explain all this in the email that you received from abctales telling you that your story had been picked. Hopefully once you have done this your cherry will be reinstated!! Hope this helps, Sarah.

Hi Rhys, You should have got an e-mail from info@ABCtales.com saying you got a cherry for your story. This will tell you which editor (his/her number anyway) gave it to you, and you e-mail ABC and quote it...it comes back pretty quickly. Don't worry cherries always find their way home Vicky

Blimey we must have posted at the same time, Sarah...tee hee

Oh dear, I'm certain I didn't get an email saying it had been cherry-picked, I've only had 3 cherries but I've never had any emails about it. They're all quite old now (all uploaded before March of this year) so maybe they didn't send out emails back then? Alternatively, I'm not sure I had entered my email address into the 'my details' bit of the site when I uploaded the stories, so perhaps that explains it? But really, 'Falling Stars' was cherried, honestly! It was story of the day too and that made me very very happy. I'll email someone about trying to get that beautiful cherry back right now. Thanks for your help everyone. Rhys

try Diana Bird she's the one that wrote to me, though another editor cherried me...dbird@abctales.com

Rhys, I so pleased it made you very, very happy. Is it not a disembodied voice though? What is the editors' number what do they really think. Isn't it the raucous critting we clamour for, not simply a a selection process. Maybe because I've never been selected, that's my hang up. Rather have the words of mississippi though! A little box at the bottom of the rating scale would be dead useful where each reader could spill a few beans, gems, pearls, cherry thoughts even. theboywhowouldbegood

Great minds think alike Vicky or maybe fools seldom differ - not sure which!:-)

I have it on reasonably reliable information that editor 73 is in fact the good old champion of bad spelling MYB!

Not true hes ed number 33 l think it might be emily tho.....

I sit corrected, thank you Liana!

Well, here's one poor sap who knows exactly what Rhys is talking about! Sorry, Liana, but I think - and hope - that you're wrong. There aren't many editors, and I think they use more than one number each. Recently, I had a story cherried - for which I was duly grateful, as I always am - then removed the very next day as it went through editing for minor spelling corrections. I'd told ABC it was coming through, and reminded everyone (several times) when the cherry steadfastly refused to reappear. I've had E-mails from both Tessa and Diana, assuring me that everyone's very busy and my request will be dealt with by editor 73, who cherried it. This, apparently, is compulsory, and I can see the reason for it. I'm still waiting, though I know that MYB went on holiday - or somewhere - on the very day that I asked editor 73 personally for my cherry back. That was over a week ago, and I don't believe that I, or anyone else, would be simply ignored like that. Case proved? So, I'm watching, hawklike, for some action on the cherry front. I love my cherries, and I'm not going to give one up! Oh.. the name of the story? "Just too good to be true." Now that is ironic..

Marks been away a wee while now......and l know he definitely uses 33..cos ages and ages ago when l got my first cherries, he mailed me :o) Also, l had some other stuff cherried by another ed, and re edited, and they were resurrected by mark. So the ed that cherries, isnt the only one who can put 'em back, so to speak....it may be so now, if I'm wrong it certainly wasnt that way ages ago anyway. Im rambling its late, somebody shoot me.....

Mark has been away or marks resurrected as in a Florida voting fiasco. Enough of lost cherries and stories 'bout cops & corpses I am off to the Poetry Gallery in search of a literary shower. later...