The pacing of this little story was very well executed. At first innocuous, but slowly simmering, until it reaches the height of passion, and you wrench away the satisfying climax from poor Mr. Wise to keep us in suspense. Well done!
Let's see. I'm a writer by trade, but not a fiction writer. I can tell you it's a professional industry, so it wouldn't do for my employers to know about my, uh, other writing endeavours. I favour shorter stories that emphasize unique situations, or even gimmicks, where the e...