Another short tale by
The Masterful Mistress of Short Tales! 
It's fun! It's tricky! It's full of love and tenderness and surprises!
And it also - sorry, Sweetie. Spoilers!
Anyway, I liked it a lot. It started like a rewrite of All Shook Up, but it's actually much better than that. The opening
The first thing he noticed when he came to was the smell. A complex odor of staleness and rottenness congealed in his nostrils, choking him into an unwillingly-woken state. It smelled like garbage, only worse, as if someone had taken the contents of a dumpster and multiplied it by several thousand…
…Oh.
was perfect. Couldn't have set the mood more effectively. And the reunion? Priceless. Beautiful.
You even got my favorite dramatic element - conflict - into this short tale. Wonderful. It's just too bad that it's a tiny bit late for the 2020 Kerths. Oh, well, there's always next year. You'll have my nomination.
