Original Commentary
And thus it begins in media res, a fancy term for "the middle of the story". Why? To give it a sense of mystery, so you wonder what's actually going on - Terrence

Modern Commentary
When this originally ran, I noted to Isabel that this should be "One Morning (1 of ???)" and we shouldn't reveal how many comics are in the arc before it's over.

Usually we do this because we haven't quite finished writing things; sometimes a story can go in unexpected directions and branch off too places we never expected. YSIF is a very "deal with the emotional aftermath of what happened" comic.

This time, I was trying to be clever... - Terrence