The heart's filthy lesson with her hundred miles to hell

Here's recent progress on my subtropical (art)deco mystery about a young medium in a historic spiritualist community teaming up with a shell-shocked haberdasher who's receiving love notes from hell ... as inspired by a real place and a real set of bizarre (otherworldly?) incidents:

Project: Brimstone
Deadline: March 1, 2016
New words written: 2912 (crap for a 2-day total, but better than nothing)
Present total word count: 27,000



Things Accomplished in Fiction: The open reading turned sinister; aftermath of sinister happenings; pimento cheese sandwiches.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunts with the dog; went to bank; went to post office (twice, because I forgot it would be closed yesterday, oops); went to Walgreens; assembled a kickass exercise bike; sorted and added up tax receipts; did laundry; did some housework.

Other: I will probably get a little more writing done tonight, but my afternoon was interrupted by our neighbor - who'd found a dog running loose and nabbed him. She thought she knew where he belonged, but she also thought that the owner had moved, and she wondered if I had any contact info for the owner in question. End result: Between us, we spent about 2 hours (when all was said and done) hosting a marvelous playdate and trying to scare up the owner, who had - in fact - moved away. Long story. Anyway, I wanted to get this posted before I break for supper.

Dog Other: You guys may remember Greyson's friend Briley. Bless his fluffy little heart, when he got loose and went walkabout, he just came on "home" to see his pal.

Click here to view on my website, since LJ won't support Vines for crap.

Resolution to Dog Other: Briley's mom was eventually tracked down, and she collected him a few minutes ago. All's well that ends well!

Cat Other: Kittenzilla is up to eleven pounds of fluff and fury. God help us. (She's only seven months old. Oof.)



Dog Other BONUS: Briley is always such a happy bastard. It was good to see him again, and I'm glad he is safe.



Number of fiction words so far this year: 13,787