Still inching along with Petra Released. Magic Meter says so:
I could whine about this, but really, minuscule progress is certainly better than none at all. And if it turns out that I finish this thing right around the time George R.R. Martin turns in the last installment of the Song of Ice and Fire saga . . . hey, at least I’ll be in good company. So that’s something.
Your snippet:
Emma braced herself inwardly, said, “I have an alternate suggestion.”
The council turned to her as one.
Though seated, she felt momentary vertigo, as if a giant fissure had opened at her feet. She pushed forward with what she had been rehearsing for the past two hours: “Without the platforms, we might want to consider whether an armed conflict is . . . strategically worthwhile.”
Eyebrows raised around the room. Cromberg gaped. “What in the hell are you talking about?”
Write Club update: A tier one bounced from Flash Fiction Online. Response time, 14 days.
Onward.
