I finished the first draft of Kindred of the Wood this evening.  It’s now in simmering mode, and ML is on board to give it a content read later next week.  Ended up clocking in at a little over 13.5k.

As for the surprise, I had a weird little ( around 900 words ) non-erotic story pop in my head, and wrote it in about the space of an hour.  “Ride no More” is probably going to make some people scratch their heads, but I like it anyway.  It’s going in the Summer contest as well, so it’ll probably come out on opening day with Queen.