This story has been around in several different forms for more than 20 years. This version was created in 2012 for submission to The First Line, a quarterly journal in which each issue contains stories with the same first line. The first line
For NaNoWriMo in 2016 I wrote my masterpiece, Everlasting Tunes. I started the story originally in 2010 and gave it up. Having finished it, the stuff from 2010 turned out to be largely extraneous, not fitting the new format of the story. I'm
A double-story episode, since it's the first. "For Want of a Pig" and "Burn" are both about my kaiju possum, Possumgeddon. Come thrill to the origin and further adventures of the rampagingest marsupial in South Georgia.