I finally got my story fin­ished and posted on BitterBuffalo.com. It’s a fic­tion­al­ized account of how Mikhail Lermontov may have died, a buf­falo his only intel­lec­tual friend. I actu­ally tried three times; the first two attempts were just a tad too seri­ous, so I threw them out. I tried to get all the themes of Russian roman­tic lit­er­a­ture in there, such as nihilism, fatal­ism, and rev­o­lu­tion, but didn’t write too much for fear of bor­ing the reader.