Introduction [excerpt] Midnight is the first fifty pages of what is to be a novel over four times its current length. As the first quarter of the book, what was attempted in this thesis was to create a solid foundation for which the rest of the novel could be built atop without great concern about the novel's premise, voice, and direction. As a creative endeavor, it represents the culmination of six months of drafting and rewrites, as first envisioned in the short story ...