...I realized we were surrounded, and if we didn’t move quickly we would certainly be caught... or worse. These green blasts didn’t seem the “take Teal alive” variety. These were meant to kill...
I've written a book. It's called Teal, and it's best classified as a YA sci-fi novel. Teal is 346 pages long - or more precisely, 102,282 words comprised of 550,713 characters. (Characters meaning letters, numbers, and punctuation - not individuals in the story.) It took me some 18 months to finish the first draft, then another year to rewrite it in 1st-person instead of 3rd-person (well worth it), after which came another year of reworking and rewriting the story to the point where I feel like it truly represents my best effort with these particular characters. As you might imagine, the road to finishing Teal has been... "interesting," to say the least...