Lots of guilt going around: Maggie has just realized that the settlement’s destruction is her fault, and Hisham is afraid that he’s killed Leaves Turning Copper.
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Lots of guilt going around: Maggie has just realized that the settlement’s destruction is her fault, and Hisham is afraid that he’s killed Leaves Turning Copper.
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A typo from an early chapter:
“Steve stopped to take a leek in the bathroom.”
How about if we take that leek and scramble it with the dropped brain (Progrep 35)?
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I hit 50,000 words today, about halfway through the novel. Whee!
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Flows All Ways has had a vision and is heading toward the settlement while Pestle in Acorn Season shakes a rattle over Maggie’s pointy head.
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No fingers on the keyboard today.
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The aftermath of the quake is occupying most of the characters, Leaves Turning Copper in particular. She’ll be at it for some time.
No, she’s not pushing a broom. She’s pulling Raghida.
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A snippet from today’s chunk:
I don’t need healing, Maggie thought. A Steller’s jay landed on her head and started scolding. She brushed it away.
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‘Nuff said.
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At the pinochle party in the aviary, Leaves Turning Copper fends off parakeets but loses the round to Raghida. Copper agrees to enter the VR park . . . . where Bad Things await.
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Leaves Turning Copper has reached the VR settlement in the valley and met Raghida, an eighty-three-year-old woman with a passion for pinochle and parakeets.
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