*I* dunnit

[realthog]

Well, finally this afternoon I finished the story that's been monopolizing far too many of my brain cells over the past two weeks -- finished the first draft, anyway: I've no idea how much further editing will be involved.

I had not expected that what's currently called "The 5000 Spirits" (in the hope that everyone will catch the allusion to the way that the story's really an exercise in peeling away the layers of a metaphorical onion, see?) would pitch in at, um, 24,000 words, but I got more and more interested in it myself as I went on, and it sort of Topsified on me.

So, anyone out there want a slipstreamish, vaguely noirish novella . . .?

Yeah. I thought not.