Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

I finished the rough draft of the baseball story this morning, and it turns out that my previous hopes for brevity were, um, greatly exaggerated. The actual word-count is just under 8,500 -- well above the 7,000 I was hoping for. I don't know if I'll be able to get it down to 7,000 after editing, but we'll see. I always strive for a ten percent reduction in word-count, which would leave it around 7,650 or so. That's still my shortest story on record, except for "The City of Dead Works".

And now I'm onto my retelling of the "Snow White" story. To my great surprise, this one is writing itself, almost. That hasn't happened in a long time.