Part of a healthy diet?
Vanilla-almond bread pudding topped with slivered almonds, raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. A good source of . . .um. . .calcium.
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Arts and Crafts
I was feeling artsy and or crafty the other day, and decided I would try my hand at making some beaded jewelry. One of the things I tried was something vaguely steampunky — disassembling watches and reassembling them so that the mechanism shows. Sadly, many newer watches (particularly on the lower end of the price range) do not have the lovely metal gears that older watches have; but I think the end result was still pretty interesting.
Shots of some of my other …
Story at Fantasy Magazine!
My story, “Tending the Mori Birds,” is now online at Fantasy Magazine.
Excerpt:
A Mori bird waited for him on the railing, its claws wrapped around the wood. The dying light accentuated the patch of red feathers at the base of its slender neck, the only color on an otherwise black bird. A bloody-throated Mori bird, harbinger of death.
I wrote this story while attending the Clarion West Writers Workshop back in 2006, and it is the very first story I ever sold. Due to an assortment of unforseen circumstances the story is not …
Ribbit!
Spent some time this morning cleaning up after yesterday’s flooding. We found a frog hanging out in our garage puddles. Poor frog didn’t seem too pleased that we were squeegeeing all the water out with an old mop. Eventually (after some gentle prodding with aforementioned mop) we encouraged him to head outside, and find a more natural puddle somewhere.
Now the sandbags are all stacked up in case we need them again later, most of the standing water is out of the garage, and things are …
Free Fiction!
Issue 17/18 of Electric Velocipede will be available in print soon, but in the meantime John Klima has made a selection of stories from the issue available to read for free online:
* The Bear Dresser’s Secret by Richard Bowes
* Enmity by K. Tempest Bradford
* The Spaces Between Things by Matthew Kressel
* Setting My Spider Free by Caroline M. Yoachim
Here’s a brief excerpt from my story:
Cool air swirled in through the window and carried with it the faint tapping of claws scratching …
Chili
I decided this afternoon that I was in the mood for cornbread, and since cornbread on its own is not a very nutritious dinner, I made some chili to go with it. I suspect that according to some definitions, this actually doesn’t qualify as chili (Texans can be very particular about chili — I think around here it’s only supposed to be meat in a spicy sauce, no beans or anything), but it was tasty. Mostly I just threw in anything I had on hand that …
Happy 4th of July!
With record heat and very little rain, Peter and I will be celebrating the fourth sans sparklers this year. (This picture is from a few years ago, when we still lived in the pleasantly cool and damp state of Washington.)
Instead, we are gathering with a few friends for traditional independence day foods like pizza and cake (because all traditions should include cake), and will spend the evening comfortably air conditioned and playing cards and board games.
Happy 4th!
Story Online, Website Updates
Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online, including my story “The Land of Empty Shells.”
Excerpt:
The rest of the birthing was hard work, but painless. Dziko and Terra sprinkled water over the clay to soften it and kneaded the flesh together until there was no way to separate his riverbed brown from her sunset orange. Then they divided the babyflesh into two equal pieces, soon to be their children.
Read the rest here.
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I finally got around to updating my webpage, which had gotten a bit out …
Assorted Writing-Related Tidbits
I’ve had a couple bits of good news on the writing front — back in April I sold my story “Stone Wall Truth” to Asimov’s, and this morning I got an acceptance from Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD) for my story “What Happens in Vegas.” The latter story was originally written while I was at Clarion West, which reminds me…
It’s write-a-thon season at Clarion West. There are many wonderful writers looking for sponsors, and the money goes to support Clarion West (about which I really cannot say enough good things). I don’t have time to participate as a writer …
Free Fiction!
Shimmer is giving out free PDF downloads of Issue #10. The table of contents for the issue is:
Blue Joe, by Stephanie Burgis
The Carnivale of Abandoned Tales, by Caitlyn Paxson
A Painter, A Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor, by Nir Yaniv (Translated by Lavie Tidhar)
One for Sorrow, by Shweta Narayan
The Bride Price, by Richard S. Crawford
Jaguar Woman, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Firefly Igloo, by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Fox and the King’s Beard, by Jessica Paige Wick
Interview with Cory Doctorow, by Jen West
River Water, by …
