From: Tavia tavia@btinternet.com

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As I've said before, and will doubtless have to say over and over, that story [[Nickey Barnard's 'Haunted']] is *gen*.

Whilst I agree, that ain't what its detractors say.

If anyone's got the right to deliver a final verdict, it's probably Nickey. I don't recall her saying anything one way or the other.

Even if it is slash then it doesn't break my submission guidelines, since they only stipulate no erotica.

Well, actually they stipulate lots of things, like no crap science, no Orbit Shuttle stories, no escaping through the ventilation ducts, no golden haired aliens draped in white sheets with a technology far in advance of our own etc.

Horribly graphic violence and gratuitous use of the word 'fuck' are hardly necessary, but they do tend to help in winning me over.

Neil