for all my complaints about hypergraphia and sunk under a cloud of melancholy, the gnome fable is finished and in the can.

Let's see, started 3/29, completed 4/7, what's that? 10 days?

Well, it's not that much when you consider it's only 15.4K words.

Next up:

A story about a group of university graduates who setup a winter tourist destination at a time when tourists were mostly people on some kind of pilgrimage to the site of some odd religious relic like the left big toe of Saint What's-his-name. Then they decide that since there is no apparent local government, they should setup one of those, too; and, well, we all know governments don