What if he didn’t need those things?

Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 of my novel edited! They’re all short chapters but it makes me feel accomplished to have gotten through four on a worknight anyway. Maybe that’s why I made some short chapters in the first place. Hmm.

The downside is that, at least on workdays, I have time to work on my novel or this new short story of mine, but not both. I really need someone to adult for me so I can spend most of my time storying.

Continuing directly from yesterday’s snippet:

“I don’t have the money for a transfusion or stitches,” she says this without looking at me but she does stop walking.

“I don’t want your money and I can’t give blood or sew anyone up.”

“Then how can you possi-“

“What if he didn’t need those things? What if his body could heal on its own?”