Chapter 5: Newton

Chapter 5 is online at http://www.WebFeats.com/Transition/5.html.

This is the scene where Jill and Sunshine, the two protagonists of the novel, meet for the first time. We learn a few things about Sunshine, although what we learn seems to raise as many questions as it answers. And we also see a side of Jill that you could chalk off to fierce competitiveness, but that would probably be letting her off too easy.

As you've noticed, I tend to think of my characters as real people, in that I tend to analyze their personalities, as if I weren't the one who created those characteristics in the first place. I'd be curious to hear from other writers to find out if you do that as well, or if perhaps I'm in the throes of some kind of latent disassociative personality disorder...