this one is filtered, mind you.

(...) anyway, what are my chances in this story? if we can call this a story, that is. a story must have a beginning, an ending, and something in between, as dry as it might eventually be (not all stories are interesting, of course). and so far this... thing as nothing than a prologue, a lousy one of my own writing. i cannot turn it into a proper story. perhaps even she can't do it.