Rejoice and be glad, for my next story is done! I took the comments people made on The Village to make something a little more emotional than my previous work. As always, I hope you are willing to take a look and tell me what you think. I’d be infinitely grateful if you would help me improve. And if you like it, allow me to seize this opportunity for some shameless self-promoting and invite you to my other pages.

Enjoy!

Simmer

PS: Before the actual story is a short piece of prose that I’ve tried to fit in somewhere, but I couldn’t find a spot. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the story in itself.