I revised a short story that I first wrote almost a decade ago. I was finally able to get to it beca

I revised a short story that I first wrote almost a decade ago. I was finally able to get to it because you can take photos of pages of handwritten writing and ChatGPT can pretty reiably turn that into text. I really hate typing things up. Something I can put off forever. But I like to write by hand for the first draft. It has been a conundrum! 

What was interesting about going back through this particular story was that it's sort of, kind of a political story, and my politics have changed quite a bit since I first wrote it.
For what it's worth, I wrote it on a long weekend staying in a monastery in Poughkeepsie, which, no, that's not something that I do a lot.

The interesting thing was that I found that the ambivalent politics were okay. By the time I was done with the revision, there were a couple different ways to interpret what the story was saying was "good" or "bad." So leaving that open felt right to me, while raising some big disturbing questions about consequences.

I submitted the story to an open call from a new press. Wish me luck. It always feels nice to feel like I have a piece circulating. I don't work hard enough at that.