Thanks so much, Randy! Very much appreciate your comments here; as noted, I consider you to be a superb writer of The Scary Story so coming from you, this is high praise. I'm certainly a fan of Lovecraft's works, although Lovecraft himself? *Shudder*

You know, I had never really given much thought to Cthulhu's sex, but took some inspiration from this entertaining collection of Lovecraft-inspired stories written by women: She Walks in Shadows (http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/books/she-walks-in-shadows/). I highly recommend this. I even went back to my very old "Ipswich" story (the Lovecraft-Dennis Lehane flavored fic; remember that? I posted part of it on the LC) and fiddled around with the protagonist - now BPD Detective Mary Margaret ("Maggie") Conway instead of Charlie Conway. :^)