'here & Know'

“The writer as reader,” my editor was trying to make a point. “The reader, as, umm, listener. You know the drill. The money’s all in podcasts and audiobooks and audiobook podcasts. That ilk. Hmm?” “I really don’t know what you want me to say,” I told him. I continued reading the words on the page. The words that I, umm, definitely wrote…. “I should say, Margaret, that if I grew a mustache without knowing it, then that is a pretty big deal,” I told my wife. “It took me nearly forty minutes convincing Ken that the sheen on my upper lip was nothing more than chicken glaze. I’ve been taking so much overtime lately. I don’t think he–” “No.” “No what?” “That isn’t the edit. Let me see that page.” My editor fumbled with some pages. “I mean, Mer, chicken glaze? What even is–” “It’s like the airborne residue that gets on you when you work at a chicken factory. I looked into it.” “Here. Here we go. Take this.” He handed me a page. “There is no question about the mustache, my friend. I don’t know where you thought you w