[Fictionary] Yes, Virginia, there is a "shive" (or, The True Meaning of Shive)

[Jim Moskowitz]

>shive n The secret integer between five and six, in the esoteric
>novels of T. Tankara Bowe.
>Ranjit Bhatnagar
>fictioneric:  Holy crap! A very emphatic point. If these novels turn
>out not to exist, I shall insist that the submitter write them. [Ed.
>Note: I agree! Ranjit, I think you've got your work cut out for you.
>:-) ]


It's already been written, and published in Strange Horizons over a decade ago:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20001120/secret_number.shtml