Year End Navel-Gazing

Welcome back and Happy New Year! Because in a previous life I was an indie rock boy, and in the current life am a writer of fictions both long and short, I am doubly doomed to participation in that dubious sport of would-be-champions known as navel-gazing. It is with both a touch of horror and a hint of shame, but with the faintest hope of some sort of transcendent relevance, that I present to