Alan pointed this out to me last night: if you ask Google maps for directions from here to London, it says, "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean."

Alan had an article on consumerist, which so far has 786 diggs!

My short story Harvest went up at Strange Horizons today. Huzzah!

Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.

Names of Tulips, Good Friday

I've had several pre-orders for Otherwise (more than I expected which is nice). If you'd like a copy, there's still four days to get it postage free.

I'm self-publishing a chapbook for fun. It's called Otherwise: speculative poetry and contains "Cherries for Buttons," "Muffler Men and Uniroyal Girls," "Muffler Men Revisited," "Sister, I'm Telling You," "Waiting to Happen," "We're Still Girls," "The Greening," "Last Will and Testament," "The Rainy Season," "The Bather," "No Words," "The ( Read more... )

• Alba published my "The Undead in Hospital," for which I must thank Mike Allen (for this post).
• I was also published by Stirring - "The Dollhouse," Vol.8, #12, December 2006.
• "Last Will and Testament" was in Chizine.

Tonight I went to the monthly open mic at the UU Church in Nashua. I read three poems from The Allotment: New Lyric Poets: "God Bless This Twenty Dollar Bill," "Auto Biographies" and "Throwing Signs." I was a bit nervous about reading a poem in which I talk about treating men like beetles you flip on their backs to torture them, since it was in a ( Read more... )

My extremely short story, "Ring Around the Coffeepot" is now up over at 55 word stories.

(Also, my story "The First Time" is still up for their Readers' Choice Awards. Voting ends Jan. 20.)

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