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 # Working Title: Death Alley
 
 This is a writing project for which writing actual prose begins in November
 2020, having performed some planning and outlining in the previous month(s).
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+## Where's the story?
+
+I'm working in a branch, not the project trunk (aka "main branch").  If you're
+looking at the trunk, you won't see as much.
+
+If you have access to a working branch, what you find may be a mess.  I know
+what I'm doing, but it isn't really organized to be intelligible to others at
+present.
 
 ## What kind of story is this?
 
 It's a near-future speculative fiction thing dealing with (realistic-ish) AIs,
 pseudo-literally-underground agitators, government contractors, and the