Hi, everyone!
Sorry if you thought this is an update. It's not. This story is very strickly a one shot.
I'm kinda breaking rules here, but I'm going to do it anyway.
About a day after I posted this story my friend Charlotte sent me a picture she had drawn of Smalls for this story. Before I get to my mini- something about how much I love it, let me say this: I've made it the new cover for this story with her permission. Feel free to marvel over it (I know I have), and I have no jurisdiction over whether or not you download it and use it someplace else (because while does not allow copying/ downloading from a story there is nothing that prohibits you from doing that for the cover art), but please, please, please, if you do give Charlotte credit. She didn't sign it or anything, and I have no idea how to add something on the computer after the fact, but I still want her to get credit.
Now, on to my mini something. This bit is mainly so I can express how much I love it and love that she made it for me, so if you've read this far and want to stop feel free to do so.
I can't tell you how much I love the drawing. It's almost exactly how I pictured Smalls, and it captures the essence of the story really well. I also am amazed that she put the effort into drawing the picture. She isn't in the Newsies fandom, nor has she ever seen the musical (or movie for that matter), and she also doesn't have the weird obsession I have with bygone eras. So she researched everything before she went to draw the picture. (We were also talking yesterday and she told me how she went through the story and picked it apart to give me feed back, which she's done with my other stories- it's all really nice amazing feedback, but refrained from sending it to me so she could surprise me with the picture. So, that like doubled the time and effort.) That she wanted to do that for me, and put in all the effort it's just...
(I really thought that I'd be better at putting this into words when writing it then while speaking it. Sigh.)
Charlotte, if you read this, I know I've thanked you many times already but still, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
I have some of the most amazing friends ever, Charlotte, Sonicblue99 (who I know in real life), Zoe, Thomas, Allie, and quite a few others who i'm not mentioning only of the sake of how long I'm dragging this authors note of sorts on. I love them all so much and I'm so lucky to have all of them!
Well, if you made it to the end of that spiel, thank you!
Hopefully I'll get a story up here again soon!
~Connie rose