Previous readers of my work may know that I gain the opportunity for extended writing just once a year, during the North American summer. That's when the stories I've written here so far - Resonance, A Mutual Understanding and World Cup - were all published.
I entered this summer with the intention of completing the sequel to Resonance, titled Echo, only to find that I'd left the manuscript offline, and off my hard drive, making it unavailable to me during my vacation.
The good news is that I came up with a completely new story, tentatively titled Longshot, about which I'm very excited. The current manuscript is at 20,000 words, and I think that the complete story, after editing, will be in the range of 60,000 ~ 80,000, making it near novel length.
The bad side of that is that I'm busier during my vacation than I expected to be, and the piece is still in a state of growth, so there's very little chance that I will publish it here this summer. With luck and diligence, I should start to turn in the first chapters here, at my usual rate of one a day, when the leaves being to fall.
If you were waiting or hoping to see new work from me about this time, I apoligize… but I intend to make up for the lack in the very near future.
D.