A Winter's Tale

[Cormanus]

Looks like the edit to your post makes it incomprehensible to those of who, for geographic or other reasons came late to your post ...

Curiously, Google provided a tantalizing glimpse—The Gloaming. There was just a hint of frost in the air ...

I wonder how long it will stay there?

You found this on Google? You mean, this page before I deleted? I just figured fiction wasn't gonna go because no one seemed to be reading it. Maybe just not the right audience, no sense trying to dig up those old archives and repost them unless someone enjoys. Just thought I'd give it a try, fiction has sort of become a thing of the past these days.
What's the page on Google? I sure can't find it anywhere. That's kind of funny, actually.
Well if anyone wants to read it I can dig it up again, it's very old file from the late 1990's back when Altavista was IT.

Yes. That was it. I wish now I'd taken a screen shot of it. As soon as Google re-searched the site after you'd updated the post, the search result I got was no longer available.

I'm glad you've reposted the story; I'm enjoying it a great deal and looking forward to the rest of it.

But ...

... I'm a moderator and I have to ask: is there any way that we'd breach someone's copyright publishing this story on the forum?