My podcast this week is from a fiction story I need to finish. (Today!)
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for January 31, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is from a short story, tentatively titled More Than a Little Misdirection. (My fiction titles often change before I finish the story.)
Closing the door behind her with a quiet snick, the dual odors of stale coffee and pizza gave Jayne Stone that roller coaster feeling in her stomach. Clearly, at least one of the team had been here, in GenResearch Security Central, for hours.
Based in a nondescript four-story brick building in a nondescript office park in bucolic Waltham, Massachusetts, the Security team had a small room protected from outsiders in the very middle of the fourth floor, sandwiched between the elevators and the stairs.
With no windows, the room was large enough for four sixty-inch monitors across the top of the room, one monitor for each time zone. Below the monitors were floor-to-ceiling whiteboards. Right now, the left-most whiteboard had the word “URGENT!” in big red letters and several yellow stickies underneath. The right-most whiteboard had several black sketches under the title of “Possibilities”. The two middle whiteboards had the faint outlines of previous sketches and notes.
And the video.