It looks like Queenie and I independently came up with the same location for a challenge story in reply to the 2020 Kerth Week One Challenge. I have not read hers yet; that will wait until morning-proper... My muse inspired me in the middle of the night (It is 2:45am as I type), and I wanted to get my story down while Thalia was with me. (She has been social distancing from me for most of this past year.) I wrote my story before seeing Queenie had posted, and I read just enough of hers to realize two things:

1) Her story is sufficiently different from mine to warrant my posting my story despite their shared locale.
2) As always, her writing is infinitely superior to my own.

I hope you enjoyed Down in the Dumps? but I would welcome feedback either way.

Thanks,
Lynn