Kenaz Fiction

I think I've managed to do her justice-- I hope I don't come across as a writer who creates shrews and mopes, or assassinates characters as a storytelling shortcut-- but it's tough to balance in a really short story when an absent character is potent mainly *because* she is absent. It's already becoming an expository info dump, which is problematic enough in itself. I may have painted myself into a corner, but so be it. I'm both mediocre and extremely rusty, so I'm working with what I've got.