Monday evening.  Still running low on sleep.  Hoping to read this story fast, so I can sleep early and well tonight ...  I need it, too---tomorrow I must work all night in the darkroom again.  The winter isn't letting up either, plus there's still no word on how bad it needs to get before the College calls a snow day  :(
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7:51 p.m.  Language reset to English with Shantel on YouTube.

7:55 p.m.  "Navigator," by Mike Meginnis, 11 pp.

7:56 p.m.  "In games, where it was so often so easy to lose perspective, but also in life."  Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have known it was a monkey if you only showed me the picture and not told me what it was that you had drawn.

8:03 p.m.  Apart from the moment of bluntness in the 7:56 p.m. entry above, this story is reading really well so far  :)

8:08 p.m.  Two other small things up to now  :(  "Two in the morning" is unimpressive, in case I was supposed to be impressed by how late the characters are staying up.  And "His skin was waxy like the stalactites" is too blunt again.

8:22 p.m.  Game over  :)  Beautiful exercise in extended metaphor.  More on Thursday, I hope.  If not Thursday, then Saturday ...