I’ve always been such a sucker for Swan Lake, and I really liked your take on it! The cuckoo metaphor was such a great idea, and I loved the prose during the Swandive ending. Awesome job!
[laughs in a very normal and respectable way] Thank you!! LMAO If a day ever passes without some obscure (either really good or entirely off base) metaphor being made, then that means I am DEAD.