A big welcome to the club for Alef

Congratulations, Alef! Whether as a highly skilled writer, or a wise, friendly presence, it's impossible to imagine the site without you.

Congratulations, Alef! Your stories are always easy to comment on because there is always something nice to say about them. There just needs to be more of them, more often!

Well done, Alef! I've enjoyed each story of yours that I've read and it was a pleasure to have had the chance to offer a few of those well deserved comments.

Welcome to the Thousand Club, Alef! Not only your stories, but your comments, are always a pleasure to read.

Well done, Alef. Here's to thousands more.

While this "one-thousand-comments-received" society has become somewhat less exclusive with the upsurge in commenting over recent years--Alef is its 50th member, or 48th if magazines aren't included among the individual authors--nonetheless joining it is still a milestone event in this Library, I'd venture.

So congratulations on some excellent writing efforts... --C.K.