...Yeah, if someone doesn't do a film vignette based on your middle paragraph, I'l do a oneshot.
Yay, I still haven't had a Synthetic review, as much as we swap and discuss stories. The universe does strange things the moment you think it starts hating you. Can I derail to talk about something I saw on the train recently? I was trying to fall asleep sitting, thinking about the long drudgery of school (ten-twelve hours daily) about to commence when I came home, and I noticed something. The little cracks in the curtain on the window made an almost continuous pinhole for light to pass through, and its screen was the curtain on my other side. I saw faint exquisite shadow-shapes moving upside down around the curtain, as the trees on the horizon passed by. Ever made a pinhole camera? This was it, perfectly arranged, entirely by accident. In this position in my compartment I was treated to two halves of horizon: the real one glimpsed through the window curtain, and the shadow, its inverted image, making a much smaller arc on three walls of the box.
If you don't write about this, I will.
PS: I don't catch you on the messenger these days. Are you very busy?