How This Story Almost Didn't Exist, Part I

A series of events, which seemed unfortunate at the time, are responsible for a complete 17,000 word poem being available for your viewing (hopefully) pleasure. I was supposed to graduate collenge in the Spring of 2004, but a failure to account for the difficulty of taking four seminars in one year prevented that from happening. I'd rather not go into much detail here quite yet, but thoughts racing through my head one Friday evening during that extra were responsible for the original inspiration for the story.

I'm not exactly sure on times, but I think that the 2004 presidential election was very close to when I started writing the story. I might have written something longer than what I'm used to writing if Kerry had won the election, but Elephant News certainly wouldn't have taken the direction that it ended up taking. Overall, I still wish ush hadn't won but at least something positive came out of this strategy.

Then there was the computer, but that's another story for another day.

The actual story starts in the March 31st archive, the name of that post is "An inauspicious beginning". I had posted the poem starting with the last part so the beginning is at the top.