Good news. I finished the very rough cut of the story last night. I even added a mostly ceremonial “The End”. I still don’t have the chapter count because I need to see if chapter 14 will need to be split. I think it will end up being 15 but it could come in at 14.
BJ:
And although I'm sure Tank is wincing at the mention of "James Olson", I'm glad that Lois is pimping him to Petersen (I like him a lot, btw).
The funny part is that generally I’m not a huge Jimmy fan myself. But as a computer research resource, he can come in handy.
EvelynC:
Bill, put that K in a safer place than your top secret safe that everyone knows about! Please!) Okay, how soon will that K disappear?
He was warned…
(Which generally does not bode well for L-man.
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IolantheAlias:
And I'm shocked, shocked that there's gambling going on at Rick's Casino.
Bev and I both laughed at that. We love Casablanca. I wasn’t deliberately echoing Claude Rains, but I certainly might have been in the back of my mind.
Semi-Unrelated Trivia: Claude Rains played the lead in one of the very worst SciFi movies ever made,
Battle of the Worlds (I actually own a copy. I have a weakness for REALLY bad SciFi movies.) Before my son left home, I used to regularly threaten him with having to watch it. (That was NOT the reason he left. He went to college.
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Thanks everyone. I’ll have chapter 11 up in a few days.
Bob
