Summer's over

10/10 for writerly observation. Finished that damned short story last night and have entered it in the BSFA short story competition, where I have little doubt it will sink without trace. But, hey, I finished it...

And now I have finished it I realise the main problem was the choice of central character: it simply wasn't plausible to have her on the spot for the later developments I had planned. Which means:

• it's shorter than intended but finished before the deadline, and
  
• in spite of calls for more optimistic SF - if I rediscover the blog where I read about that I'll stick the link here, but don't bank on it - it has a wallow-in-misery downbeat ending. Unless, of course, you're rooting for the alien.

And - rather better news - my short story Creeping Justice has been published in Issue #2 of Concept Sci-fi!