I am writing a short story based on a middle-of-the-night idea. Those are the best kind, right? I am so intrigued by the idea that I open my notes app right there in the bed and "make a note" of it. I stay awake a while thinking about it. I think about it for the next couple of days. It comes to mind every now and then in the passing months. I don't do anything with it for perhaps a year, or more. Why not, you ask? Because I don't consider myself a short story writer. Oh, yes

Long, long ago, in a sunny, too-hot office in Georgia, sits a girl at a desk. Rather than focus on her work, she picks up the phone, dials her sister’s desk number and happily reads to her the latest chapter. The guffaws, sniffles and snorts from too much laughter, and breathless sentences that start with “Th-that s-s-sounds like som-something I would do!!” informs the girl in the too hot office that she is on to something. By gar, she is going to be an author. And, oh, isn’t