“RETCON”: ELSEWORLDS. It’s done. I ended up writing a huge big lump of it, so I’m posting it in, uh, a huge big lump. Anyway, this is a short story. It’s done now. In this segment, Sarah and her father walk on the beach, something is found but some things are still lost, the prose continues to be workaday at best, and Madeleine appears not at all. Let me know if you think she needs to come back, if only for symmetry’s sake. I suspect this story is predictable, but I haven’t ever seen these particular elements combined in this way, so I like it. As always, your comments are not merely welcomed but fervently encouraged–and this is a short piece, so really, why not take a butcher’s? Here for whole story from the beginning, here for last section.