89,000 words

89,000.

the main character has no friends. i love this aspect of the book, and by the fact that there isn't much to learn or guess about him from the start, you can feel like you know a lot more about him.. if that makes sense. I don't want the reader to be filling in the gaps, but instead to know what the gaps are, or that there are no gaps. Ok, I'll stop talking about gaps now.