Addendum

[stormsongk]

It occurs to me that in writing that last piece, "Wine-coloured Thoughts", I didn't say nearly enough about fear of death, which is one of my own personal demons and part of what drove me to write it in the first place.   To get through a story without saying what I came to say is undeniably failtastic.

So I've revised it, and I encourage everyone who read it to do so again.    I think it will flow much better now.