Nicely done. I saw where it was going and I loved the trip. Like seeing the track ahead while on a roller coaster you've been riding since you were a kid.
Not sure where else to gush, but I am THRILLED that you pulled Seanan McGuire for HPL tribute month. Her truly Drabble-worthy stuff is the stuff she writes under 'Mira Grant' (an open pseudonym). Feed (the beginning of her Newsflesh trilogy) is George Romero meets Hunter S. Thompson meets cyberpunk,...