My podcast this week is an excerpt from a fantasy short story. I will finish it today, mostly because it's due!
Yes, I'm traveling. Yes, I agree, I look terrible. Too bad. I meet my deadlines. I promised you a (mostly) weekly peek into my writing. You get it. (I expect to miss next week's writing in public because I will be crazy-busy.)
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 31, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is part of a fantasy short story.
“What’s your offer?” Lisa asked. Then she coughed. “Tell me your offer.”
Celeste did a little fist-pump. Yes, her friend Lisa’s world and social mores had affected even how she, a celestial being, reacted.
“You can ride on a comet.”
“I can what?” Lisa asked. She shook her head. Maybe her hearing had left her. Celeste could not be offering what Lisa heard.
“Ride on a comet,” Celeste said, again. This time a little more loudly.
Lisa thought she heard the soft hoot of an owl, flying nearby.
Well, maybe there was nothing wrong with her hearing.
“Hold it,” Lisa said. “That new comet that came out of nowhere this past summer? The one that surprised everyone because it’s interstellar?”
Celeste laughed, a lovely tinkling sound that reminded Lisa of skis skimming over snow.
“That’s the one,” Celeste said.
Lisa shook her head. “You thought of me last summer? I wasn’t even really sick back then.”