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Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 23 - 24: Took up.   Chapters 25 - 34:  Need to be taken up.    Chapter 35 - 36:  Finished and posted.  Chapter 37 - 41:  Read and revised.   Persephone (probably not its real name)   Wrote part of a back story short story for it.  Short Story There's a little list of stories to finish pinned on my wall. I chose one, chose a market, read the story, and decided I could totally take 600 words out of this for it to fit into that market. Then I decided to clarify the setting, and this added 400 words. The main character needed a personality; adding this didn't actually make the thing longer. I looked at the original market again and realized it wanted 500 words less than I was aiming for. So now I'm 1500 over.  And I wrote a 2000-word thing that I haven't looked at since that I think is awesome, but it might be half-baked, who knows.  Connecting Critted  16 (probably more sustainable than last month...

"Artificial Condition" by Martha Wells.  The first Murderbot book was so awesome I immediately requested book 2, but it was a month's wait? The next one says 16 weeks, and I've ordered it already. I read a review of one of these that called Murderbot "He" throughout, and I found this shocking.  LHC #89: "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" by Melissa Bank. I had a phase where I requested a bunch of short story collections about young women behaving badly. This is one of those. Somehow I hadn't realized it was linked stories until after the third one, and then the fourth one was only barely connected, which was weird.  LHC #90: "Half-Witch" by John Schoffstall.  I would have requested this one because of its awesome name. It was also only available in paper. Weird? I guess that's because it's a middle-grade novel (somehow I didn't realize this until I was a few chapters in) and middle graders don't have eReader...