The only person I've had read my story is my sister(who is a very harsh judge, but not as harsh as me, ha ha!), and she claims she was able to get through it pretty quickly. It doesn't feel overly long to me at this point...but it's told in the first person, and the main character starts off knowing as little as the reader about her surroundings, so there's a lot of dialogue and very little exposition.

I've done some research on the pitfalls of trying to get your work published(and have been suitably discouraged), but I don't belong to any writing communities--I feel like I've been trying to keep the actual story a secret, for some reason. ^^;; Once I'm at least a little bit satisfied with it myself, I'll be ready to show it to somebody else.