Thanks for the link; I quite liked that. But I felt more of Fritz Leiber in your story of a (mostly) living city than of ol' J. G. (That's okay by me, as I prefer Fritz, and I hope that's okay by you too.) By total coincidence earlier today I finished reading the story "Tom Kelley's Ghost" (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2001 (I'm catching up)) by Steven Popkes whom I take must be a neighbor of sorts of yours since he founded and remains in the Cambridge SF Workshop. That story takes place in, under, and near Boston, and I think you might enjoy it. All this Bostonia helps make up a bit for my having to miss Readercon this year.