THB #66: Unpublished.

My infrequent publication this week has not been a matter of vacation.

I wrote up a 3000 word piece called “Just Keep Swimming” that was so brutal in passages that I sent it to a confidante and asked for an opinion. I got lots of them. But the one that stung most powerfully was, “Do you have to slaughter everyone?”

I’ve spent the last 36 hours or so chew…