Old bad habits die hard

While I may be pushing 52 now, I still sometimes work like I’m an irresponsible undergrad: I leave things until the last minute. (“Kids,” I tell my boys, “don’t do as I do.”)

Today is my turn to submit a story to be critiqued by my awesome sci-fi critique group, The Minnows Literary Group. I had 6 weeks to work on this, but I may not get this done until tomorrow. Will I ever learn? Will I never learn?

Here’s a snippet of my work-in-progress where I sneaked in some taxonomy because I love putting science into my fiction (and this is science fiction, after all).

This will be a sort-of continuation of the story I had in the anthology Still Out of Time, per my friend Meg’s request. 🙂