On Life as a Sarcastic Fringehead

Anybody else notice how I weenied out on beginning Parker's story?

I can't let a backstory impasse become an impasse for the entire thing. I have to keep going, almost no matter what.

I've used the word "thing" twice in the past few days. My 12th grade English teacher hated that word, and I'm always conscious of its use, especially my own use of it. But sometimes, Mrs. Pecsenye, thing is what fits. Don't mark off for it after all these years.