You joined exactly a month after me. Welcome to the 1 year club.

Regarding the plagiarism accusations, as you know, having been in some of the same groups as you were back then. I wonder how much of it was envy? You'll notice I didn't weigh in because I don't do drama, and I don't convict without, you know, evidence. I would have hoped reasonable adults could have just asked you straight out, "hey, your story XYZ is really very similar to this other one by (Insert name here), did you happen to read her piece?" And then you could have responded whatever way you wanted to.

I was accused of plagiarism once in one of the groups by another author during the runanway train challenge. I worte a story about a dog on a train. She did too. They are completly different. She wrapped her accusation in a series of passive-aggressive comments, but it was abundantly clear what she was getting at.

As you may have guessed by now, I don't do passive-aggressive. But I do agressive-aggressive quite well. So, I told the bitch off, right there in the comments, let her know exactly who I am, how many challenges I've won and how I neither have the desire or need to copy anything from anyone ever. Funny, she never said anything after that.

And here we go, a long meandering comment right after you said you hate long, meandering comments. I'm thinking you'll let this one infraction slide. ;)