The Thaw Begins

I went for a run in shorts on Saturday; the last two days I’ve doffed my battered leather jacket for the old corduroy, though I’m still sporting the hit man gloves. If / when the Rapture of the Geeks occurs (or any other rapture) this is one of those things we’ll lose forever: the feeling of blood opening like a flower as we return to the sun.

Background writing for the webcomic project continues apace:

http://theshiftremembers.blogspot.com

The idea: The Shift is a desert that stretches between worlds. You walk into a desert in one dimension, lose your way, and end up in the Shift; if you ever walk out again, you’ll be in another world entirely. The Shift allows trade, commerce, and war between dramatically different worlds, each with its own history, and its own approach to high technology or magic; it’s a place of danger, drama, and opportunity, and a reporter, a runaway, and a renegade are about to change it forever (or die trying).