Very neat new story, sorry I've not made a response before now.
Definitely a different direction for you... it suprised me, being a different theme than you have written for the board before. Great fun, though! Thank you for posting to the Archive.
Now, if I could twist your arm into a continuation of The Stepfather or more of your San Carlos Island story, THAT would be uber-cool... nudge, nudge
http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/C/ea_212502the_cure.htm