@Cheri Terrific—though I probably should have taken @macgenie’s last comment as a clue it was not a great thing for me to be reading today, but my ghosts are not your fault :-)
Also, it made me want to write fiction again.
@Cheri Not like you and the others here write fiction, but yes, I used to, once upon a time…. I wrote a sci-fi “series” from about 3rd grade through high school—probably until I went to Egypt and discovered I could maybe do this whole “poetry” thing—and various one-offs in middle and high school—the quality was as one might expect from that era. The last time I did any fiction writing, I was in grad school and started a story while at a bar up the street from my place with some friends, and I got maybe a paragraph in and never returned to it 😂