Meat...and a possible return to form.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Entirely unrelated is the fact that I have just finished a fairly major structural re-write of 'the alpha to omega'. I have prettied it up in places and cut away some of the more repetitive introspections. I now need the space of a few days before embarking upon a 'last'? re-read of the whole novel. Then, who knows, it could be joining 'is' on bookshelves across the globe in 2008. It would, in fact, be another good thing to put behind me, allowing me - motivating me - to get on with creating rather than re-hashing, and to see where 'the year of the monkey' is going to take me.

Cautious optimism surfaces.