All Shapes, Chapter 4 - The Wedding

Here's a chapter from a novel I'm finishing and submitting for representation soon-ish:

The Manipulator's Knock - Chapter One

Unedited, unadorned. First chapter of The Manipulator's Knock
 

Done Eight

500 words today, and Tryst is in the books, so to speak. This'll need some work, I think. Six months for a ~61,000 word novel is not a great pace.

I'm going to spend the rest of the week finishing the short story "The Dragon", and then start on The Manipulator Knocks / The Manipulator's Knock on Sunday July 10th.   

Some number of words in Tryst. Not finished, but nearly. Should end this week. I wrote about 400 words in a short story called The Dragon, which is about rescuing something from a flooded house.

Distance

a short story by Charles Ll. Hoehnen

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Joan waits for Alice's call. She is late again. Something must have happened to her. Always afraid of what might happen to Joan hears voices and sees ghosts.

"Hello, hello? Joan?"

"Alice? Yeah, it's Joan. I can barely hear you."

Alice's choked breath clamors above the static - gulping air.

"I'm in big trouble. I need help."

"Oh God. What happened? Where are you?"

"It's awful ... I can't tell ..."

A wash of noise obscures Alice's words. She squeals into the speaker and Joan, shocked, jerks the phone away from her ear. The call drops and the line is quiet.