The Mystery of the Missing Story

I promised to post a story sometime today, to show my appreciation to my readers on Blog Reader Appreciation Day. Yet this is not a story, and there is no new story below it. Where is the story I promised? Happily, the mystery is easily solved. I have over 2,500 words of the story written. It is turning out to be a bit longer, and a bit harder to wrap up, than I'd expected.

I choose to believe my readers would prefer, and would feel my appreciation of them was best expressed by, a story I didn't slap together just to meet the stroke of midnight. And some of you will no doubt go crazy if I post just the part I have done so far. So, I will be posting the story tomorrow, unless it turns into a novella :-D without warning. I am sorry for the delay, and hope you'll find the story, when it is up, was worth the wait.