This is a short story I wrote a few years ago on an unfortunately now dead site called Ficlets. The whole concept of Ficlets was to tell stories in 1,024 characters or less. Of course, some of us cheated and made the stories chapters in longer ones (my longest was a 50 part fantasy story). If you want to see more, all the stories from Ficlets are stored at the Ficlets Memorial. My stuff (the good…