I’d been brewing this idea in the back of my head since the book arrived, but didn’t get it down on paper until just before mailing day. I knew I wanted to do something with wings for an emergency, but I wasn’t sure how to make that fill such a large space. I happened to receive a pile of unhappy notices in the mail, and that sparked the idea that the emergency might be getting away from real life—so, Meg is the lucky recipient of my March bills.