Progress Report!

I wrote twenty pages this evening, 5600 words. My favorite word in that number is “atrament” which I used in the phrase “black as atrament.” The word means a very dark liquid, but its older and archaic meaning is “ink.”

My favorite exchange of dialog is between Menelaus “Meany Louse” Montrose, a gunslinger from the Free and Armed Republic of Greater Texas, circa AD 2210, and Drosselmeyer, a warlock of the  Old Iron Dreams Coven of the haunted ruins of Detroit, circa AD 4400. The gunslinger is carrying the warlock on his back out of a prison camp where archeologists of the year AD 10505 have taken them and other cryo-suspended revenants exiled from former millenniums.

With apologies to my Wicca friends and Christian friends alike, the exchange runs as follows:

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