100 word story on the writing process:
The halogen heater of Korean extraction was slowly but inexorably melting her shins as she tapped out her search terms, first into Google, then the less popular Alta Vista. Perhaps she should have visited the library, but it was snowing again and her trainers were wet and cold from previous excursions on the ice.
“Fevers in ancient Rome,” she wrote, turning up eight trillion pages about Malaria and an ancient goddess named Febris – not to be confused with the cleaning product, Febreze. But what did Caligula’s sister, the enigmatic Julia Drusilla, actually die of? No one knows for sure.
12 Books in 12 Months 