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Labrat,
Well I thought so but I had to ask. She is incredible at creating pictures.

Clark surreptitiously scanned her pack with his X-ray vision and rolled his eyes as he readjusted his glasses. She must have been in a rare snit when she went home to collect her things. Nobody as smart as Lois was could have packed so stupidly otherwise. To supplement her chocolate, she had brought a Tupperware container full of what looked like potato salad, a jello cup and a bag of pretzels. The potato salad would be spoiled in a few more hours, the jello would melt and the pretzels wouldn't last the night. He hoped she liked fresh caught fish.

Jimmy had left ample room in his pack for his camera, a box of powerbars, a stack of CD's and the latest model Gameboy, which Perry promptly confiscated. Perry's gear was unremarkable except for his giant sized Elvis beach towel which Jimmy foolishly cracked would have almost covered the King at his last concert, thus earning the chief's blackest look.
Clark confessed to having with him a change of shirt and underwear, a book, a pocket knife, a brown bag with a grease spot on the bottom and a couple of cans of pork and beans. When Jimmy pointed out that he had forgotten to bring a can opener, Clark felt appropriately stupid.

Actually she is pretty incredible all around.

**Laugh your way out of this one Lois**, the tiny annoying voice in her head taunted. And then she felt a wave of anger, normal and reassuring. Her temper hadn't failed her yet. If nothing else, anger would carry her through, and she could feel herself growing very angry indeed. .... Besides, mere friendship would be a pale, unsatisfying thing in the face of love, hurt and ire.


I wasn't really flattering you. (I thought I had already taken care of that ).
The reason it stopped surprising me, was that I thought that since it was an Nfic (and an Nfic appropriately buried in awards) it wouldn't have been eligible for the Kerths as a rewrite.

No it isn't, but the trouble is that they are just about the only tool there is that helps you navigate among the stories. The themes feature for example, only scratch the surface.
For me it's like "that story was on the same page as that author with the three kerthawards after each other).A kerth story you can always find again, but a unnominated gem will just dissappear in the archive which is really sad.

Wendy,

Well did know about the voting part, but I thought the K-com handled the nominations.

Oh, I just thought it strange that it wasn't nominated. Award nominated stories have certain intangibles that are present in spades in Second Thoughts. If it was up to me it most likely would have won. . IMO you have won awards with less deserving pieces. But seriously saying that Wendy Richards write award calibre stories is about as controversial as saying that water is wet.

I especially like it that you so often have a new angle, it's not just about emotions and relationship. An A-plot isn't necessary, but makes L&C come a live and they don't appear so vacuum packaged. Second thoughts is such an intelligent story about Luthors campaign of cutting down Lois support network. Luthors growing bewilderment with his inability to make Clark Kent’s disappear and Lois frantic attempts to protect Clark. It’s like a classic romantic mix-up comedy, with the bombing of the planet as the last step. Many of these scenes would have been gold in the TV-series.

But on the subject on nonawarded stories, I loved the powershopping in a "Date by Arrangement"

Yeah, but it’s kind of a problem. When you still can find jawdropping stories on the sixth or seventh sweep, the sifting process becomes so meticulous that it feels like a like it's time to get a life.