Those of you who follow me on twitter might remember that back in January I absolutely SWORE that I was going to get a story done for LT3’s Rough Riders collection – in fact, I went so far as to get an extension on the deadline from LT3, because I was TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY SURE that I could get something done with just a few extra days.

Perhaps needless to say, I did not. I wrote about 9,000 words and then realized that what I had was the beginning to a probably 40k story – not something I w...