Writing progress.

I'm 1306 words into When Everyone Is Dead, an AU steampunk historical tale of The Great Game as it was played in 1893 Lahore -- the same setting that Rudyard Kipling's Kim begins in.  Like Kim, I have some historical characters,  some fictional and original.  I also have some appropriated from Kim, and an original but derivative hero, an intrepid Muslim boy who runs a coffee kiosk and reports regularly to numerous spies of numerous factions.

I'm hoping to have it done in the next 4 or 5 days, at a length of 6,000+ words, and may need a 48-hour turnaround beta; if anyone is interested.  If you know Kim, Indian History and the Great Game, historical Islamic practices, or the works of HP Lovecraft, I am especially interested in recruiting you to read this story, but no qualifications are required.

As with most of my latest stuff, this will be submitted for publication, so if it sounds like an interesting read to you, your only chance to see it may be to volunteer to beta, :-P.

Worth noting, perhaps, that this AU world is the same one I've set my Lightning Age LARPs in.

"When everyone is dead, the Great Game is over.  Not before."
--Rudyard Kipling

All-nighter.

The work progresses.

I really, really love taking old coffee and using it to make cocoa.