It's up!

Yes, I dropped out; but I did want to fulfil the assignment. It's just that I had not come up with an idea; and, in my state of (I hope temporary) decreptitude, I couldn't be sure that I'd manage to finish a story even if a plot bunny jumped into my lap, wiggled its nose, and winked at me.

However, I got an idea on Monday, wrote the first bit on Wednesday, and pulled an all-nighter to get it done and uploaded today. (In between, I did a lot of sleeping. For example, on Thursday I walked over to the supermarket for the first time in a month, came back with a full shopping basket, fell asleep an hour later, and didn't wake up till midnight. The store is only fifteen minutes away!)

The story is a bit dark in some ways, but I hope not in ways that will disturb my recipient. Certainly, it fits the bill in other ways. Anyway, this is the way it finally decided it wanted to be written, warts and all. (Typos, of course, will be corrected if and when I spot them. I'm sure they're there. They always are.)

As I dropped out of the exchange, I have no idea whether I'll get a gift myself. It all depends on whether my own assigned author remained on course or dropped out hirself. I'll find out when the archive opens, I guess.

The important thing is that I did, in the end, finish.


Update: I shook the presents, and one's for me! How lovely.