Well, I have to congratulate you - I was invested enough in Harrison to want to keep following and eventually see him resolve his grief ( or not). That's got to be hard to do in such a short piece.
Respect the language, dammit.
Zeni's schtick is creepy and, as he ages, becomes creepier. However, he meets neither the legal nor the diagnostic criteria for a pedophile. He, or at least the character he inflicts on us, is an ephebophile.
I can't think of any bills you could do that to in American currency. But if I was still living up near the border, it'd be tempting to have a couple of those in my wallet.
It makes for a very tasty cheese sauce.
What exactly is tomato gravy? The only time I ever heard about making it was from a friend who used to dump a can of tomatoes into the pan she tried ham in and cooking it down.
I usually make it with butter for mac and cheese, and it's always sticky, but this was for a roasted cauliflower and bacon casserole - it called for using the bacon grease, and damn...the last time I made anything that was so persistent was when I forgot to grease the pan when I made brownies. I was just curious as to whether anybody else had run into this.