Very intense and effectively kept very much ‘in the moment’. Sounds dire.

Thank you very much, good sir (and old friend!, back from my “J.A. Keane” origins).
And also, thank you kindly for being the first person to comment on anything I’ve written since I re-joined the Ficly community; it’s an historic day, if only to me…
=))

Very “stream-of-consiousness” style, effective for reasons THX highlighted.

Mature tag?