I was thinking more of a three-course meal topped off with chocolate fudge cake for desert and relaxing with a hot cocoa in front of crackling fire kind of satisfying.
--And even if it's "published" online (100 copies from Kinkos is also "published"), it's still your story, and if a publisher balks at your manuscript all you have to do is change one word and it's not exactly the same story any more. The online version was just "practice."