Happy anniversary to me. Or storyversary as one person aptly put it. It was one year ago today that I started putting ideas to paper (cyberspace?) for season eight. One year. I have been working on this now for much longer than it took for them to create the real season eight. I try not to think about that and keeping telling myself that I don't have the luxury of working on this twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

When all these ideas were running around in my head I couldn't figure out how to make them all mesh together. Finally realized they weren't all meant to play together, they were two different stories. They do, however, share a beginning. The chapters titled, "Sock Hop," "Post Sock Hop," and "Does Anyone Have a Plan?" from "The Season Eight That Lives etc.," are also the first three chapters for this story. This chapter, "Marinara" takes places after "Does Anyone Have a Plan?" and before "Time Flies When You're Trying to Have Fun".

There is still more to come for "The Season Eight That Lives etc.," just nothing ready to post tonight.

As always, thanks for reading,

VioletStella