Entropy Gate

SLAP DOWN THAT GLOVE!

As a fencer, I have always loved a challenge...well here it is...basically you have the month of November to write a 50,000 word novel...what is the prize? Nothing really, but (I think) a T-Shirt that says you have completed your goal and the satisfaction that you and several others have done what you set out to do...

so...what am I going to write about? (you may ask)...so glad you asked...

Short explanation...

Sue Yakama is a young Japanese girl who is having a hard time dealing with the disappointments that life offers her...one night during a rained out Halloween, she finds a strange rock in her closet...she keeps this odd treasure and tells no one until (flash forward to 1985) as a senior in high school her boy friend asks her about it as they are observing the "Northern Lights" while reclining on the hood of his Thunderbird in the fields of Decatur Indiana...he assumes that Sue is a freak, dumps her and she pursues a career in ART at a local University...however...more rocks begin to appear in her closet and she tries to hide them...finally, as she is accepted into Grad school, she leaves home only to return ten years later...her house is for sale (after her parents have passed away) and she chooses not to sell the place as she begins to discover more than rocks in her closet...

I will eventually post the story when it is finished Dec. 1...until then, just wait for "FIRST GATE".