The Ballad of Doctor Richardson

By all accounts, he's a failure. An academic who lacks the respect of his students and peers, an obscure author who hasn't published a word in nearly a decade, a dreamer who lives alone except for a cat and a telescope, a man whose very shyness keeps him isolated and yearning. But tonite he decides to do something different. Tonite he decides to find some sort of solution. Tonite he will change the course of his life, because tonite he chooses the unknown. And on the other side of the night and his choke, a woman awaits...