I still haven't resumed work on The Great Valley , but I have been writing: A short story (my first and likely only one this year) set in the near future about Aztlan (the version that wants to cut out part of the southwestern U.S. for an Hispanic nation). Actually it's five story ideas compressed into one; Laurie and I were discussing the subject of Aztlan "historical precedence" argument versus Native American honest-to-goodness historical precedence on Thursday, I mentioned that I'd had miscellaneous... read more