November Submission...

...has been sent. If you haven't received it, let me know. Also, I forgot to include two things at the beginning of the manuscript. First, this is set in either November 1997 or 1998--I haven't decided which just yet. But that might answer a question or two about Simon's actions. Second, I've been toying with using this epigraph.

[W]hen you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

                                                                               --Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

Any and all other comments are appreciated. Flow. Characterization. Too much detail? Not enough? Mood. Atmosphere. Do you want to keep reading? Thanks thanks thanks!