I have finally finished a short story…

…which has been lingering since May.

Yes, the speculative fiction story with bees in it is at long last done. At one point this story was over 3000 words long, and during the editing process I removed close to 40% of the text. A lot of that text was world-building and bees, and my editing-self decided that if people wanted to learn so much about bees, they should be taking themselves to a research page of some kind (or looking at bees themselves) instead of reading this story, and it would be better for the story if there wasn’t so much bee-ness going on.
A lot of the world-building was fun for me to put together, but again, not needed for the story.

Along the way I learned about continent-spanning high frequency rail thought-projects in Canada (high frequency rail is like high-speed rail, only slower) and also a little about projected future language use in certain industries. And there’s a mention of Koschei the Immortal.

Now my story is (finally!) out to a couple of people who might provide some feedback, and I will edit it once more and then start sending it out to potential publishers.
That’s it, that’s all I have to say right now. I just wanted to celebrate getting this done a little!