Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

Go get your heart broken.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.