Google image: I was ready and willing for an outing
but not a gun aimed at me.

I needed a social call out; I'd been hibernating in my room again for the last two days. It'd been an edifying solitude, by way of mental convalescence, whereby through films, TV shows and books I was both reprieved from my strenuous worries and nourished my esteem. I'd built it up to the point where when...