supply & demand, a short story

I've spent the last couple of days writing a short story. This story had been bouncing around in my brain for a few months, and originally I was going to include it somewhere in this novel I'm working on called The Contrarian, but I decided against it because, although this short story ties into some of the themes of that unfinished novel, it wouldn't fit from a timeline slash narrative perspective. And frankly, my attention span is terrible, so I'm fickle as hell artistically, meaning what really happened was that I just randomly felt the strong urge to finally write this story and succumbed to that urge, putting all other free-time-related activities in my life on the back burner. At this point, I could keep going back and forth proofreading and changing things, but that has to stop somewhere, and right now at this exact moment in time and space is when and where I chose to stop and just publish the damn thing.

So, here's my short story titled Supply & Demand. If you happen to read it, I hope you find something to like about it.

 

( Supply & Demand (full text) )