I'm sorry. You know, you're the reason I'm holding off posting the next chaptered thing I'm writing; the thought of making you wait hurts me. THough I doubt you'd start reading it before it was finished after what's happened with Best Souvenir! But you have no idea how flattered I am that you read it even though there's such a wait between. Hopefully this time there won't be!

Typo--fixed! Thank you so much for pointing that out.

a2zmom is beta'ing this story, and she's from NY. She suggested the dead ducks! For atmospheric flavor. Bleecker comes down right to the edge of Soho, but I'll double check with her. It's murder writing a story set in a city I've only ever been in for 3 days. I always think I get the local stuff right and then it turns out I'm wrong.

Thanks, as always, for your support.