Thanks for the comments. Between writer's block and summer project work it's been slow going, but I'll definitely get back to both this and the yoga party story in the true stories forum eventually.
I know I have at least two running stories in the forums right now, and I still intend to finish them, but in what little time I've had over the holidays I have quickly become intrigued with the idea of writing on Chat GPT. It was quite limiting at first, but I learned that if you train it carefully, it can become an incredibly effective creative writing partner.
What follows is a 16-page story I completed start-to-finish in the course of two goddamn days. Something like this would normally take me weeks, but after spending the first day doing a little research and training the AI...
Thanks, I appreciate all the comments. I'm trying to finish up another project in the true stories forum first, and then I'll get back to this one. In a perfect world I'd turn this into a series...lots of ideas floating around in my head.