Trimmed Down, Baby!
I spent a LOT of time today trimming a story down. It’s my little bloody Christmas story, “Solvjaynghi’s Christmas Wish,” and while I didn’t get it as slim as I wanted — I was vaguely hoping I could compress it into 4000 words and give it a try at Clarkesworld — I did get it [...]
Facebook/Nonstandard
It seems to me that Facebook is a rather amazing little bit of social software. It allows one to find one’s links to others across all kinds of boundaries — having lost touch, having dropped out of contact, having moved to a new place.
However, the biggest limitation for a piece of software like this is [...]
My Meez Me
Let’s say this is me teaching.
Ganked from Tina’s post. More in the extended section of the post.
Der Rejectionze
Water off a duck’s back, really, these days.
I got “The Egan Thief” back from F&SF, and “Ogallala” back from Analog. I think “The Egan Thief” might be too weird for Analog, so I think I’ll shoot it out to Interzone, since they there’s an e-submissions period open now. I think I’ll send Ogallala to F&SF, [...]
New Rotator Images
I’ve done up some new rotator images, and thought I’d retire the old ones for a while, so as to show off the new ones. Any favorites? (Hit reload to see a new one.)
Der Leapfrog
The story I labeled “Consolamentum Version 2 (The Long Mix)” in my sidebar projects tracker is, in fact, quite different from the original. And it’s turning out, perhaps, to be a completely different story. The original was narrated by an eight-year-old kid, while this one is narrated from the POV of a teenager, probably in [...]
Sufficient Cause
I want a pissu.
Huh? Go read this story by my classmate Tina. And while you’re at it, go read my classmate Ben’s sister Stephanie Burgis’s story, Crow.










