Saturday, February 25, 2023

Image by Chris Graham

Hello, everyone. I’m finally ready to take the plunge into an all new, three things style serial. You may have noticed that strange word in the title. To over-simplify, zugzwang (German for “compulsion to move”) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games when a player is forced to make a move.

I usually open up the random reader things, which drive my serials, to everyone — and I will probably do that eventually. However, that’s adds much more work for me than you would expect. So, with this new serial, I’m randomly choosing readers and asking them for things. Since Chris The Story Reading Ape suggested my fictional town of Atonement, Tennessee as the setting, I asked him to provide the things for this kickoff episode. As always, Chris rose to the challenge in grand style, and gave me…