For the first time in two years, I'm writing a short story that's not, in some way, for school

During my time in my MFA program, I wrote 23 stories. Of those, I'd say that around 17 were turned in for some sort of class assignment. And even the ones that I didn't turn in for class were oftentimes written with possible submission to the workshop in mind.

But since completing my last workshop story (back in April), I've had zero desire to write shor…