The One With The Gender Reveal / Chapter 28 +29

 

So, there is going to be a gender reveal in this chapter and when I was looking for an image to put at the top I found some things we need to discuss.

Gender Is A Social Construct

But seriously, I love this idea :

  

 Also this...is there a third option ?

FZAFSOAAWA Returns

So, I have just been writing and writing a million different things and not really focusing and it's been kind of a nightmare.

As I was going through my mess of files and I noticed I had a file called APO I didn't remember creating.  When I opened it I saw a short outline I wrote for FZAFSOAAWA(Formless Zombie Apocalypse Fantasy Space Opera Aliens Assassin Wizard of Oz -ish  Thing). I'd kind of forgotten about the outline, so I feel like maybe I could do this after all the other novellas are done. As usual I'm not sure how it ends or what the characters names are but I have more of it plotted  than I thought.

And...I now have a two song playlist.

The APO was just my shorthand for apocalyptic.

Chapter 27
I know a lot of you wanted some Rocket/Juliana time and this chapter was all about that and we are slowly inching back into UL territory. 

The reason Juliana is so obnoxious in this chapter is because she's dealing with that classic female thing of people not believing what she says. She tells everyone that the baby is Rhett's but she still has to prove it with a pregnancy test and she's a little bit hurt by it. 

I think we're at a point now where I can talk a little bit about how UL3 came to be. Even when I was writing UL I kind of knew I wanted Juliana to have a child and I had sort of imagined her with a young son and it being the two of them against the world.  I originally imagined this is what UL2 would have been about, but I couldn't write for it at the time. I think I was going to make Brad the baby's father.  I was going to do it in OHG too, but then I wrote a miscarriage and I just never got around to it.

Anyway, I finally got to explore this whole Juliana as a mother thing with this serial.

Chapter 28 + 29 
These are double chapters because of how they fit into the story. They are also both shorties.

Recap
After everyone tells Juliana she needs to get a paternity test and a fight with Jocelyn Juliana decides it's time to get out. She first goes to talk to Rocket in South Carolina and then she goes to Connecticut to visit her Dad and invites Rocket to look at some old UL documents. Rocket gets her Dad to open up about why he joined UL for her book and Tess convinces Juliana to get the paternity test.

Rhett is still working in Alaska and Juliana's been giving him the silent treatment since she visited and he told her to get an abortion and accuses her of cheating on him. But when she finally gets the paternity test she gets a nice little FU moment.

Chapter 28  (With link to 29)

Playlist
Chapter 28
-1- Waiting by Bootstraps (I'll use this song in everything until you pry it from my cold bitter hands)
-2- Say You Love Me by Jesse Ware

Chapter 29
-1- You Are Gold by The National Parks