Cut Cemetary: Entry 1

The Golden prince was still addressing Di Mon in flattering rel-peerage, encouraging the fantasy that they were working together in a common cause, which while not exactly Ameron's still fell within the intersection of the shadows Ameron cast on their separate souls.

The sentence above was cut from Second Contact last night, in Chapter 11 "Politics of a Pregnancy", where Di Mon investigates Von's disappearance on Gelion. I just like the sentence! And the idea of Ameron being a real, but very differently interpreted, inspiration for both D'Ander and Di Mon. No two disciples see the same master, but there is still a bond.

It fell to the cutting floor along with a lot of internalization that I could not help seeing was a ball and chain that the conversation between Di Mon and D'Ander had to drag along. Down to 163,000 words and falling fast.

Michael Armstrong wears Okal Rel T-Shirt for Inspiration

Went to another "West of Unruly" reading last night. My friend Michael Armstrong was reading at Art Space in Prince George, on a slate with Barry McKinnon and bill bissett. I was feeling tired and bummed until he gave me a hug and pulled back the side of his poetically open, white shirt to reveal that the black T-Shirt beneath bore an Okal Rel symbol. Doubtless it lent its strength to making his reading a rel one.

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