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by The Hostess

Summary: A short, silly piece to express what it's like to receive fanfiction contributions - and to suddenly be dumped by your website host

The Hostess sat in her office at Caritas. Hunched over the keyboard in front of her computer she could only stare blankly at the screen.

"When will this writer's block end?" she cried. Sighing, she closed the word processing software and clicked on the Internet. "I might as well check my email."

Her eyes widened in surprise. Could that be right? Ten messages? Most of the time she didn't even have one! "It's probably spam," she said as she clicked the mouse. As she viewed the list of messages, she could hardly believe what she was seeing. Fanfiction! Lots of wonderful fanfiction! She would have an update after all.

Little did she know that was easier thought than done. Arriving at the Lunarpages login, she was met with quite a surprise.

"What the ...?" she stammered. "Password rejected?!" After much surfing of the so-called online help forum, she discovered that the free-service clients were suddenly drop-kicked to the curb!

Fortunately, The Hostess has many friends, including friends who have their own domains ...