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Tiptree short list
Someone on Broad Universe pointed out the Tiptree short list today. Ooh, online fic! Read at desk when I should have been doing printer maintenance! (Not really, you know. The computer lab was using that printer, and the only thing wrong with it was a nasty squeak....
new story in circulation
That extremely silly story I mentioned is now in circulation under the title, "The Captivity of Princess Sallya." Goe, lyttel storie! Goe! 🙂
I’m a nerd…
I am such a nerd. My stylesheet didn't work in Netscrape 4.x, so I wrote one that did and some javascript browser detection. Well, okay, I modified a javascript from Scriptygoddess. I wouldn't worry so much about Netscape 4.x, on account of it only representing a...
First Sale!
"Victual-Seeking Varmints from Outer Space" will appear in the May 2004 issue of Alien Skin. Yay! *happy dances*
Aha!
I've figured out why the nightmare-based story is proceeding so slowly. I don't have the rules set for the story universe. It looks like our universe, but any world in which (that would be telling!) is not our world. 🙂 Some time rule-building for the nightmare story...
New story idea
Inspiration struck Wednesday for a twisted tale I'm calling "The Grandfather Paradox." Yes, for those of you who recognize the reference, there is time travel in this story. Right now I'm trying to figure out the time-travel rules. I don't want to do the old "can't...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.