Finally.

[temporus]

Story number two for the year, complete.  7200 words.   Can't I write something short?  Please?   Bah, I'll take it down a peg or three in the revision, but, it's draining doing that.   How's about I learn to be concise to begin with.   Yeah.  That'll happen any day now.

This was a story a long time coming.   I think it's a Fantasy.  Not sure.  Might qualify as Magical Realism.   I wrote up the outline for it over a year ago now.  It got sidelined when I started on my 2005 Nano novel, which became the beast that took over a year of my life.  When that was done, I just didn't have it in me to work on this one at the time.  But I had the whole story basically worked out, even though I had started on it twice before now.   This month, I decided I needed to write it, to get it out, and have done with that idea.   Did it work?   I don't know yet, if I still have the urge to write more stories set in Africa, I'll have to make another trip there. 

Now on to the next project.   I'll probably start a revision of an older story.   I've got one ready to be revised, it'll take some major surgery.  Hopefully, I can do it justice.  I had mixed reactions to it from the last critique group that read it.  Some liked it as it was, but many wanted more "story" to it.  I think I have the solution, we'll see.