Whew! Glad you think so. Dark, yeah, but kind of fun to write. Except my run-on sentences kind of ran away with me.

See, I think Ray's not in a great place... but it's not all that bad, either. There's worse. He's been in worse! But, uh, forget I said that, because authorial intent is not necessarily the right answer. The text has its own... oh, I really don't want to do my homework.

Thank you!