Post!!
There's no such thing as a new story. Heck, all we do here on fanfic is take an idea and appropriate the characters for our own ends... In my opinion, "strikingly similar" is something a teacher says when he hands out the study guide for a test and says you better do it because the test will be exactly the same just with different numbers... :p A story is always different-- new writing style, new results, new character interactions. Boiled down to it, they're all essentially the same. So I'm in the post-it camp.
