Another year gets away

“The horse that finished behind the pig on the first carousel wasn’t named Satellite.”
 I think that was the line that didn’t let me give up on this piece.

I wrote “The man that invented the carousel” twice in Paris and then twice in San Francisco.
I think I garnered either one line or one idea from each draft before destroying them.
I haven’t written much all year and the last Quiet Lightning submission deadline was midnight Friday October 19th. 
At 10pm on Friday October 19th I wrote the last dr...