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AOHCR survey results!
🕑 Added 2025-08-23 18:53:50 +0000 UTCWell, this poll/survey yielded very interesting results, as I hoped it would!
From my perspective, the key insight here is the fact that, once all the extra bonus votes were added up, the 'winner' was the idea about Shelly's return! Now, that was very helpful, in the sense that it dissolved any residual doubts I may have had about this scenario, which was already at the top of my own personal list.
So yeah, it's official: Shelly will be returning to AOHCR! I don't exactly how an why at the moment (although I do have a couple of scenes in mind...) but yeah, she'll be back!
Another helpful hint I got (and a very clear one, in fact) was the almost unanimous rejection of the 'Grandpa' option. Alright, message received: I won't mention this scenario again, and Mike will remain the only male lead in the story!
Also the bit about where exactly Mike should go to college got more or less resolved, or at least it seems clear that the overall preference is for a college close to home, and therefore closer to Julia and Jennifer. I guess I can work with that, although I was leaning more toward Mike going away with Lyla and Lori, only for all three of them to then transfer back to a more local college soon after. But yeah, this is still a workable scenario.
So, having collected all this info, I've already started planning out the next 'season' of AOHCR, in the sense that I'm sort of piecing all this stuff together and trying to imagine how to have it play out over the course of a few chapters. I'm not really trying to come up with a full storyboard spanning a bunch of episodes, but I'd like to have a clearer sense of what I'm getting into before I start writing the next chapter, which, at this point, will have to already contain some plot elements and/or hints relating it to the following chapters, I guess.
So yeah, the new AOHCR chapter is still very much in the planning phase, and I don't think that forcing it onto the page right away or rushing the process in any way would be a good idea. It's gonna happen and it's the next canon story in line, yes, but I'll only write it in due time, meaning, when it's ready.
Meanwhile, I have half a mind of picking up the Nancy spin off vignette and going straight into its second Chapter, since that one was already planned out and good to go when I wrote Chapter 1 down, a couple of months back. It could be a nice diversion before I tackle AOHCR... But I don't know yet.
Anyway, while I'm figuring these things out, I want to thank you all for your participation in the survey: your insights were very helpful in pointing me in the right direction! Thanks!
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Comments
ZenZerker
Yes, Shelly's return sure is exciting! And I tend to agree: remaining kinda vague on what Shelly did or did not do in the meantime would be my first instinct too. But, as you point out, there are some questions that will need to be answered, one way or the other! So yeah, decisions will need to be made... And yes, Mike and Shelly reconnecting more or less 'by chance' on campus is the most likely scenario I'm working with for their reunion!
ZenZerker
Yeah, I was also imagining that type of motivation for Shelly. Still, the big question remains: what happened in her life while we were following Mike's adventures? Do we even wanna know? And if so, how much do we want/need to know? (By the way, thanks again for the initial input!)
Steven Allen
I'm looking forward to the return of Shelly. I'd rather not hear about Shelly's sexual partners since she parted from Mike. I imagine Shelly as much the same, but with some more maturity and experience. Perhaps Shelly and Mike reconnect in college? The real question is going to be is she still technically a virgin? Did she ever give a guy her pussy or is that something she is going to give to Mike?
Michael Ricks
How exciting for a whole series of new potential. Shelly could be seeking Mike again cause she's never been truly satisfied in her heart with other partners and her physical kinks have driven her back to her source point, Mike. I look forward to the next chapters.
