Patience and Perspective in Zone 3

Fiction writers, celebrate your success and accept the failures.

A resistor with a story to tell.

What you see here is a transformer. It’s made to convert electrical current — in this case, from 120 volts to 24 volts. I can’t explain how it works; I only know what it does and that I needed one. Well — apparently I needed one.

I mean, I thought I did. I thought I would put it to use cleverly, solve my problem…