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"Degrees of Heresy"

4,601 / 6,000 (75.0%)

Wrote about 400 more yesterday after the sale, then another 900 so far today. I've had to revise my length estimate back upward to my old default of 6K; I fear it may prove even longer than that. Things still have to go horribly wrong for Qoress, and then he has to make his decision. The title got changed, too; I realized that it isn't really a question of heresy. It's a lot of such questions. And Qoress is going to have to decide what degrees of heresy he's willing to accept.

Made it!

"Degrees of Heresy"

6,128 / 6,128 (100.0%)

"Everything comes to an end someday. That's what this place is for. But it doesn't make the end hurt any less."

Speaking of ends, the last couple of lines sort of fall flat, but hey -- this is a first draft. I can always fix that later.

Three short stories in three weeks, and I finished this one well in advance of the wedding I'm going to tonight. Yay me! Now I just need to figure out what I'm doing for the fourth and final week. "Kingspeaker"? "The Unquiet Grave"? Nothing involving research, and bonus points if it isn't over 6K like this one was. We'll see what comes to mind.