Exegesis!
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Ambiance!
You can always tell an Adventuring Guild storehouse from the smell. There’s a little bit of everything: sun, wet, wood, stone, slime, spices, rust, wool, wine, and well-scrubbed sweat and blood. It ain’t a bad smell, but you can tell that the stuff it comes from has been around. Usually it wasn’t by somebody’s choice, either.
Lucas walked the two of us through the tight corridors right to his own stockpile, which was impressive. The other way you can tell a Guild storehouse is from all the stuff piled up in it, every which way. Adventurers never throw anything away if they can help it. It’s all what you’re used to, I guess.
His own stash was larger than I expected, until I remembered that Lucas was being the bagman for his entire crew. I could see why, too: a lot of the visible stuff were the kind of items you didn’t melt down for the gold. Lucas saw me looking. “So, you probably heard we were looking for the Lost Treasure of the Rodeo Drive,” he said.
“Yeah,” I replied as I examined a gold-plated cigarette lighter. I flicked it, but there wasn’t any flame. Big surprise: it was, what, five hundred years old? I tossed it back. “Guess it wasn’t as lost as they thought.”
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09/01/2022 Snippet, BUZZ ON THE STREETS.
I have the last line to this story. I just don’t know how we’re getting it, yet.
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This is going to be a short story! I finally figured out the meaning of the title, and it should work out fine. Plus, I need Remy and Lucas back for the next novel anyway.
Continue reading 06/02/22 Snippet, BUZZ ON THE STREETS.Okay, I tell a lie: I figured out the first paragraph of BUZZ ON THE STREETS.
It’s not the next Tom Vargas novel (now on preorder!). It’s going to be a novella to bridge the gap between TINSEL RAIN and the next novel, so that I won’t have to use a part of the book to reintroduce Lucas. But I just needed to bring him in properly from the start. I think this works:
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BUZZ ON THE STREETS is not going to be the name of the next Tom Vargas novel, but it might be the title of the next novella. It would be easier to just have Lucas already around for the next novel, after all. Hrm. Maybe I could serialize this…
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