What follows is the beginning of a story that I have been working on for some time. I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter five right now, and I have a few pages of the middle, and the a couple right at the end finished. Work, at the moment, is stalled . . . as usual, I know. All apologies.
Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln
Und die andern sind im Licht
Und man siehet die im Lichte
Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

(For some are in darkness
and some are in light.
And you see those in the light;
But those in the dark cannot be seen.)

- Seeräuber-Jenny, Die Dreigroschenoper (Pirate Jenny, The Threepenny Opera )
"It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
And I feel fine..."

- 'End of the World', REM