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N3 - Chapter 35
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N3 - Chapter 35

What’s your actual reaction to this crucial scene, current novel N3?

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Dodging the Skeg
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Dodging the Skeg

The problem with your skeg is when you wipe out, it comes looking for your head.

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Slippery
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Slippery

Doesn’t have the horizon high or low, but still pretty good, pretty neat. Might be the Moon. Might be Klingons firing at me.

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Write Now
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Write Now

Cruz and I’re definitely coming from different places.

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Announcement
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Announcement

Publishing is like waking up on the sidewalk and your pants are gone.

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Faye.3
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Faye.3

She’s not yer basic fictional character. Nope.

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Faye.2
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Faye.2

Faye lives in a sinking houseboat near a Truck Stop bar

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Kansaw
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Kansaw

Foundation formed-up, but I don’t have the walls poured yet

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Jailene
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Jailene

Jailene can definitely speak for herself.

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D.C. Chester
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D.C. Chester

The cemetery is directly across this abandoned section of Hwy 20

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Rigo
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Rigo

Rigo is skilled enough to re-point this kind of masonry; it is not his only skill.

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Skinny Boy
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Skinny Boy

A better pet-owner story won’t be written not nohow.

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