Progress Report, in which I assert my niceness

Logged 5.1K on Wet Work last week.  Magic Meter is having technical difficulties, so we’ll have to rock this one out old school: 

73,299 words

Yeah, I know.  It’s just not the same.

Climax is dead ahead.  A new possibility for the ending reared its ugly head yesterday–and yikes, is it a downer.  But I have a sneaking suspicion it’s the right one.

Hey, it’s not like I enjoy doing this stuff to my characters.  Not very much, anyway.  Only a little.  And I feel really bad about it afterward.  I’m actually a very nice guy, really I am.

Look kids!  Here comes Mr. Snippet!

A part of her cried out that it didn’t have to play out like this. She still had a choice, a chance to salvage something decent, even honorable, from the train wreck her life had become.

"Jesus, Emily," she said under her breath. "Quit wasting time."

She walked toward the wall, through the wall, and was gone.

 
Write Club update:  Tier one rejection from an anthology.  Response time, one day.

And th-th-that’s all, folks.

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