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Chris, I believe you can make your story hidden/inactive, so you won't get any more reviews until you republish in Premium. You can definitely do it with book chapters, although I haven't tried it for short stories. Whatever you do, don't delete the Basic story until you're done with your updates, otherwise you'll lose the reviews.

You should rest. Otherwise, I'll sneak over the border and deliver so much cooked food, your freezer will collapse.

I just put up my first short story, called Honor Thy Father. It's somewhere between Christian & Thriller. If enough people find it interesting, I may do a full novel set at the Vatican, with a TBD ending.

Quick go read!

Thanks
Dirk

1. Keep Spirit-of-Wind's name and continue to refer to him as Mayan.
2. Keep his name and drop the reference to Mayan, leaving his name unexplained.
3. Drop Mayan and rename him to something more familiar from Western culture? (Technically, Spirit-of-Wind is not a true Mayan name; it's Anglicized.)

Thoughts?

I blush, or do I mean I can feel heat rising into my face? More showy...

Thanks for the review, m'lady.

And let's not forget blushing. I know when I'm blushing, but have been told it's better (more showy) to say "heat rose into his face". Personally, I prefer blushing.

You're an amateur when it comes to losing ideas, Charles. :-)  I sometimes forget them even as I scramble to write them down. Sleeping pills will do that.

I eliminated the crazy preacher from the Galaxinet article and replaced him with a more rational history that happens to include the British Royal Family as the beginning of New Bethlehem's Monarchy, which still gives me King David as Joseph's ancient ancestor. In the revised version, the planet is founded by conservative Christians primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom.

I forgot about the vaccine, but the population crash from 10B to 2B humans included the assumption that older non-vaccinated adults had more non-vaccinated kids. Had a whole spreadsheet for the calculations.

Stuart wins. I like the royal lineage.

I looked up aristocratic names from England. Slim pickings. The best was Berkshire. Less snooty than Northumberland. I'm still leaning toward Stuart because it was a royal line.

Possible last names:
Connor - a nod to Angel's son (a seriously disturbed teen) in the TV series
Welsh - seems aristocratic
Hunter - suggests strength, which fits the admiral
Northumberland - probably too snooty
Stuart - a dead royal line, but still aristocratic

Preferences?