Why would I change the syntax like that? Because reasons. Good or bad, what's done is done […]

I was just wilding out. But even though I was a rebel kid, I was focused in school. I was an honor student. It was weird.

He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.

You posted the articles (and the articles here from the sock complaining / >>about the rejections); count 'em up for yourself. / >Interesting - you count multiple personas of one poster as separate / >posters? / Hardly. Of course, we know they were as fake as a wooden nickel. But if the sockmaster's going to protest that they were real people, each and every one (as the URCM Monitor persona did), they can't deny my conclusion. :-)