I had the idea for this while I was sitting outside, waiting for my first class to start on the very first day of the semester, some month and a half ago, by now. I don't know from where, but somehow I got the first sentence of this piece just stuck in my head, and it refused to get out until I put it down to paper, and as soon as I wrote it out, it demanded I write the rest of the story before I could go to class.

I can say that very, very few stories have ever really grabbed me and demanded that I write them, but for some reason, this one was one of them. I just hope it's as fun to read as it was to write!