Could We Really Get a Mindy Z Short Story (update 1)

I've actually had both time and the mental energy to work on my short story this week. When I posted last week, I'd written 13,000 words. Well my anticipated 15,000 word short story is now just shy of 25,000 words and I'm still in the early parts of the story. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to wait to post/publish until it's finished or if I'll post it in parts. Nor have I decided where to publish/post. Part of me would like to post it somewhere so that I can get some feedback; after all, this is my first real effort that has gone beyond a few thousand words before being abandoned (and I have a bunch of those). One kind reader has already offered to review (and I appreciate that); I'm just trying to decide what I want to do.

As a special bonus for my readers, I'll offer you a chance to give me your opinion on something. I've given my character a name (a name that she chooses in the story) for a particular reason that fits the character and the story. But I'm still not sure that I like the name and I've been contemplating a change. At present, the character's name is "Raspberry Monaco" (Raspberry because raspberries were her favorite flavor and Monaco because it sounds exotic and reminds her of something that she and her father used to like doing together). While I really like "Raspberry," I can't help but feel that the name is bit clunky or too much of a mouthful (and I don't think I like it being shortened to "Rasp" or "Berry"). So I'm toying with the idea of changing her name to "Monaco Berry".

Voting is now open (though I reserve the right to ignore all of your votes; hey it's my story!).

As for captions, I've managed to fix a bunch of typos in captions that were in my output folder but I've been too busy working on my short story to create new captions. That being said, I kinda feel like working on some new captions this weekend...