Finished the first draft of Center Piece a few seconds ago.  Clocked in at 9800 words.  I’ll probably let it sit and simmer all day tomorrow before beginning the editing process.

Not much chance I can finish the editing in time to put it in the queue for Thursday.  I have a severe aversion to the weekends, so I’ll probably wait until the first of the week — most likely Tuesday — to submit it.

In the meantime, I’m going to get to work on writing something else to help clear this one out of my mind a bit.  The more writing I have clouding up my memories of this one, the better my first-pass edit will be, and the less work Roust will have fixing it.