home stretch

I’m very near the end now. A quick tour of Sydney, an encounter with a deranged street person, a quick death, and a final shot of the three survivors standing at the railing looking out…

I’m working now on the very brief tour of the Sydney Opera House. I’ve been there but I was all of thirteen years old. To my mind, you can’t ever just say “Then they toured the opera house.” You have to have some salient point, some aspect that someone who’s been there would remember. There’s a number of settings in this book–Chicago, Brussels, Las Vegas, Nova Scotia, French Polynesia, Sydney–and I want each one to ring true for people who’ve actually been there.