I am too busy to make a post of substance

As such, I will fill in today with a story I wrote ages ago and for some reason never posted!

I basically forgot about it until it came out again (a week ago? three?) in Soundings.

Kinda raw around the edges but if I'm too busy to write up real posts I'm obviously too busy to polish my writing.

And so...

( story )

addendum-- let's throw in a poem while we're at it!

(this is also old/from Soundings)

( poem )