To make up for miss­ing a post yes­ter­day, I read a short story I got for free from Ama­zon — Daniel Pyle’s Down The Drain.

While I did enjoy the cat-​perspective pro­logue, over­all I did not like the story very much.

I think I’m just picky about my hor­ror sto­ries, par­tic­u­larly with hor­ror crea­tures. Mostly, I want to be scared of things that could hap­pen to me — a crea­ture in the plumb­ing I can work with, but not a sen­tient bathtub.

Not even a week into the new year and I’m already behind sched­ule. I blame my mas­sive pro­cras­ti­na­tion on school projects I was sup­posed to work on over the two-​week hol­i­day break. Despite the crunch for time and my out-​of-​whack sleep cycle, I man­aged to fin­ish Black Com­pany today.

The end­ing was pretty telegraphed, but over­all, it was a great read and really set up the world for this ten-​book series. Bad guys are still bad, worse guys are loom­ing. There is hope, but also a great chal­lenge to come. I can’t wait to see if Croaker makes it to the next comet.