Obligatory story announcement post · 5:58pm Apr 18th, 2018
Do you like circles AND haiku? Then you'll be, at most, 50% happy today! 
This all started with a debate on poetry entries in the WriteOff group a while back. Some people were afficionados, a few hated them, and a majority found them impenetrable and/or intimidating. So I took it as a challenge, to make a poetry story that's simple and straightforward enough that anyone could enjoy. Even the ESL readers.
Voters liked it more than I expected. Readers felt comfortable enough to just comment with their genuine reactions, without having to worry about technical and literary details. (Usually, it goes like this: "poetry? I abstain.")
So, after 6 months of procrastination zen meditation, I finally got around to expanding it with a second month just to reach the 1000 minimum wordcount. It's sort of a sequel, but each chapter can stand on its own... whatever you prefer.
If you enjoyed it, do you want me to write blogposts trying to teach haiku theory? Or should I just write more poems? or neither?
I, um, do have a fascination with circles, oddly enough.
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