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Solace & Grief
I now blog exclusively at http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Also, my first novel, Solace & Grief, is due for release by Ford Street Publishing in March 2010. If you like urban fantasy, check it out! -
Nine Things About Oracles
Originally posted here, learned of here, derived from here.
Nine Things About Oracles
first, there is blindness. like the white moon
in her witching sky, this oracle is prone to concealment.
lidless, pearls
scale on her milk-eyes, iridescent, each blink
sharp as an oyster shell.
secondly,
note her childish hands, slimwristed, fair,
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New Blog
For those who are interested: my only regularly-updating blog can now be found at:
http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Danke! :)
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Writer's Block: The Eternal Nocturnal Struggle
Well, being as how I've written a vampire book, and being a mad Joss Whedon geek, I'm going to go with vamps. Not that werewolves aren't similarly kickass, but on the archetypal, dervied-from-our-fears level, vamps are simply more complex, because even when a given literary canon makes them soulless or innately evil, we're still hypnotised by what ( Read more... ) -
Election
Like a somnolent, muck-covered hippo arising from its riverbed, the 2007 election loometh large, poised (or rather, bulked) to claim more victims than one might, at first appearances, suspect. As things stand, it looks like Kevin Rudd will win, and I for one count this as a very good thing. Amidst the endless cycle of speculation as to the ( Read more... ) -
The Joy of Collective Nouns
Because collective nouns are totally awesome, here are some I think should enter the common parlance ( Read more... ) -
News, News, News
Let me see. As of 27 September, I will be out of a job. Which sucks, but there's life for you. Also, I have done just about everything on my previous list - the hotel should be taken care of soon, and we still have to pay the final amount for the bike tour and buy headlamps to go on our helmets (and send in our heights), but that's a big ( Read more... ) -
Plans And Possibly Schemes
Things To Do Before 27 September:
- Vote early in local by-election this Thursday to avoid fine (I'll be in Sydney on the actual day)
- Get Toby to sign and return the credit-card increase form by Thursday (so we get it in time for New Zealand)
- Book our accommodation in Sydney for after the wedding (29 - 1)
- Book our flights to Sydney for the ( Read more... ) -
Thanks to Vizinczey
"Vizinczey will be no more in a very short while. And all the good I have done will be the last good I do...But for a very long time I have been your guardian angel. I have done you innumerable good turns. Yes, even you reading these words: I did you a good turn just last week. Think back and you will remember a random small miracle that made your ( Read more... ) -
Aztec Madness
Another weird dream last night, this time from my brain's 'boy's-own-adventure-and-history-fragment' library. I was part of an Aztec army traveling to fight under Montezuma against the Spanish; we fought a battle on a plain by a river, at the foot of a steppe pyramid. I switched personas throughout the dream; at one point, I was a princess of the ( Read more... )