Time slippage

32,357 words. It's a children's book, so that's a draft.

I wrote it very quickly, so it may be a bad draft (asakiyume, this grew out of the time-traveling popcorn ball story), but it is a draft! It has a beginning and a middle and an end, and stuff happens.

There are two girls living in a house, fifty years apart from each other, who become friends through the medium of time travel - time slippage might be a better word. And time-traveling trick-or-treat KitKats - in fact, quite a bit of candy in general (they discuss the changes or lack thereof in the US candy market. Candy bars have surprising staying power!) - and of course a lot of cake.

Also a brief interlude where they gain the ability to float. If you’re going to throw out the laws of physics anyway…

Plus a pterodactyl, very briefly.

It is a little bit like my id exploded on the page.

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I have been waiting for this moment of glorious accomplishment to say that I’m quitting grad school at the end of this semester. I’ll have all the credits I need for a master’s degree, and I’ve decided I don’t want to go on for the Ph.D.

( Cut for grad school meanderings )

And finally, this means I don’t have to take qualifying exams. I think we can all agree that’s a win.