Woke up with a weird song in my head (well, music), some dark, mellow Skandi metal I listened to the other day, on the night drive home, and rewrote the first nine opening pages of Goose into a creepy, mysterious horror that doesn't so much undermine the later scene (meeting Morphei in the silent garden) so much as freaks the reader out when he finally stands up.

Only took me nine years to get it.