The Delta Pearl 40 — Plummet

Saturday, July 11, 2020 

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Welcome, my chuckaboos.  I’m back with another all new episode of my steampunk serial, The Delta Pearl. 

As most of you know, this is a re-write of a novel with which I wasn’t satisfied.  I include random “things” from readers in most chapters.  This time Diana Wallace Peach gave us Jackstaff.  Read on to see how I used that kind of flagpole. 

Last weekend I posted links to several chapters you might need in order to refresh your memory for events that are about to transpire. Click here for that. 

We left Émeraude and her would-be rescuer, Randall Needleman hanging precariously from a net that had captured our heroine.  Above them the poisonous brown cloud makes it impossible to breathe.  They are near the river, but are they close enough?  Even if they were to land in the river…