If you're seeing this note, chances are this story will be deleted by Sunday, November 22. I appreciate everyone who has left positive comments on my work and helped me grow as a writer over the past 16 years, and I wish you all the best. Unfortunately, even with all the positive, I have always been ill-equipped to handle the negative reviews and personal attacks that also come with sharing my work publicly. And they are harder to get over now more than ever. I feel, however, it's unfair to delete my stories without giving those who enjoyed them a chance to reread them one last time.