>Can I read it? >It is hard to answer why they reacted that way without knowing what they read. I would send it your way if I still had the story. It's been lost to time on a failed hard disk during the era of no-good-options-for-long-term-backups. All my other writing work is probably lost as well, but I do have a bunch of old hard drives from that time that I have never bothered to look through. There may still exist something of my work but it would be unlikely the drives will work properly two decades later.