Uther Pendragon: Blog

I told you that "God Joined Together" was a universe. Then the first three stories were about three different couples in three different towns during three different decades.

Now, the main characters in the fifth story, Labor Force Participation, appear in supporting roles in the sixth, The Meeting, and vice versa. Even Craig Schmidt, the POV character of Honey Bee - M makes a cameo.

I hope you have a happy Fourth tomorrow.

If you're interested in seasonal stories. I have an (unordered) series occurring around the Fourth of July celebration in one small town.

Lakeside Fireworks starts earlier, but gets there.

I try not to post during Holy Week, the time from Palm Sunday to Easter.

This year, the serials concluded a week before that, and the only short piece I had finished in inventory was Yeti's Day. So, nothing from me next week, and only that story this week.

The serials will resume the 22nd, though. Bill and Carolyn Pierce will be back in their Marriage of Inconvenience.

An alert reader of Getting a Room -- privacy concerns prevent my naming him -- noted that I had Bill & Carolyn using a McDonald's that Evanston didn't have then. He looked it up, and the franchise did not even exist yet. I've changed it to a totally-fictitious firm. Why it's OK to have a fictitious firm but not a firm not yet operating is something I can't explain, but I feel it quite deeply. If you're in the middle of reading the story, some of the later parts will feel a little strange.

I've read some comments from people who are reluctant to start a serial because they fear that it won't be concluded.

Well, both parts of Honey Bee are on the site, If I'm hit by a truck tomorrow, it will still roll onto your screen a chapter of each story a week. While an author can post as many chapters as he wishes if they are all going to appear the same day, he can't post a chapter which will appear later than the first until the first is available for viewing.