Emergency submission

This is my attempted entry for the Writers Anonymous Narrative Voice Challenge, which has to be submitted by August 31st (and on FFnet, which means I can't do it after the library closes at 6.30pm).
That means I have to write and type the final section -- Norma's voice -- and then proofread the whole thing tomorrow morning for same-day publication; inevitably there are going to be rough edges, and probably typos remaining.

I think I have at least managed to establish the requisite three different voices for the three characters quite well, and Norma, like Max, is so distinctive that she should be *reasonably* easy to handle. And her section is, by intention, supposed to be short!

(Ouch -- I still also have to come up with a title and summary for the thing before I can submit it...)( Read more... )