Your being featured first here was deliberate. I like your first excursion into the land of fiction! Order isn't always significant here. Sometimes it's determined by something as simple as when I found one piece in comparison to other things. Sometimes I have time to categorize things in sections. Sometimes it's just a potpourri with no order at all. It's interesting to look at daily patterns like that. (But then I'm into that kind of stuff!)

Here, however, your bubble of joy is well justified. You were chosen to lead the parade. Your story appealed to me on many levels. I think it's also the only one ever to hit all three group compilations -- TDWS, Mag 7 and TIRO. I could be wrong on that score, but if another piece previously hit the trifecta, it was probably one of yours.