by Underground_Man
Good story! You did make the classic taut/taught mistake though, watch out for that one. Taught is the past tense of teach, the adjective is spelled taut. (I know it doesn't matter, but I see this particular one so often that I want everyone to know about it and make their writing better.)
Thanks for the kind words and great catch. For whatever reason I am terrible at homophones in typed text. Hopefully this should be fixed soon.