Guest Of Honor: A Novelette

But instead of the lawyer being the helpless victim, it was revenge on the highest sorts.

This visual, of the lawyer being thrown back and beheaded, stuck with me for a long time.  I knew the story would be called Guest of Honor and that the lawyer, from the Twin Cities, would be traveling up to northwestern Mi

November, for the writing world, is NaNoWriMo time: National Novel Writing Month.  In the thirty days of November, one is to write 50,000 words of a new novel.  The goal is to get people in the habit of writing everyday.  Now, most novels are longer than this, but the first 50,000 is a good start.  Guest of Honor was going to be my NaNoWriMo in February story—November, for me, seems to be a busy month.  Besides, I like to write everyday, regardless that it’s November or any of the other eleven months.  Needless to say, it took me less than a week to write and is nowhere near the 50,000 word mark.  It is a novelette, as it is roughly 10,000 words.