First: wow, thanks so much, Jim! And, yep, it’s a long one. But this is one of my older stories that’s been rejected repeatedly for so many years that I’m sick of it languishing. It wants eyes! Here it gets eyes.

If you look at my track record, I don’t rack up thousands of claps or hundreds of reads anyway, so I’m clearly not in this for the Big Attention.

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me just to have readers and you, my friend, are one of my faves!