Besides, it’s rather appropriate, thematically, that this should be a near-miss, that due to aimless thoughts I, too, have come close to missing my shot. In fact, now that I think about it, if I were less honest, I’d say reading this a day late was entirely intentional, and you’d think I was the cleverest bedtime story podcastress this side of Herculaneum. But I’m honest, and therefore, just late.

(This is one of the better fabulistories from Numbers in the Dark)