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Flesh-eating bacteria story is up to 23,600 words. We're definitely nearing the timberline on our hike up Mount Plot, and my bad guy is now moving more blatantly against the others (though his/her identity has not yet been revealed, and the good guys are still operating on several bad assumptions and lots of missing information.) Geez, I wonder if I can get this thing done in 30k? If I can't, is it even worth writing? Am I stupid not to make it a novel? I don't know.

"Something's going on here."

"No shit, Van!" Li said. "Cairnes' body was a good first clue, if you weren't paying attention."