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June 7, 2022

The Misfile: Next Part 2 Kickstarter.

This particular Kickstarter is being done by Chris Hazelton, who did the cover for TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION. He’s putting his Misfile webcomic in print: Misfile: Next Part 2 is the latest Kickstarter along those lines. Check it out!

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Published on June 07, 2022 08:56

Don’t have a title for this yet.

I woke up last night with a sudden image in my head, and came right down to write it out. Then I went back to bed. I woke up this morning with another sudden image in my head, came right down to write it out – and it turned out to be absolute crap. …Ach, well, one out of two fever-dreams panning out isn’t half bad.

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Cascadia Springsong peered down at the mottled foulness covering her minion’s chest. It was well made, as such things went: all green-black and suppurating, with globules of inky goo shifting here and there. There was no smell, per se — but it looked like it would reek of sweet rot, which was an interesting sensation. Until this project had started, she had never considered the possibility that ‘evil’ might provoke an actual sensory response. It was fascinating, really.

The foulness reacted properly when she prodded at the globules, too, with faint tendrils trying to latch onto the thin stick she was using for a probe. Some experimentation had shown that waiting too long to harvest the stuff would turn the whole thing into a wrestling match, and nobody wanted that to happen. Collect the goo after it had turned tangible, but before it turned surly, that was the trick.

“Hold him steady,” Springsong told the other four minions participating in the ‘ritual.’ Unnecessarily: they were already holding him down with grim intensity, each putting their full weight on a chained wrist or ankle. But since part of the fun of having minions was giving them orders and watching them jump to obey, she saw no reason not to indulge herself. Besides, minions were dumb anyway. That’s why they were minions.

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Published on June 07, 2022 08:46

June 6, 2022

‘my future.’

…Wait, hold up. This is good. I mean, torch song good.

my future, Billie Eilish

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Published on June 06, 2022 17:21

Aight, I’m worn out.

‘Better’ does not mean ‘recovered.’ Lemme put up the video for the day and then it’s time for bed. Good night, everybody!

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Published on June 06, 2022 17:19

I’m feeling better. Buy my books!

You know, to celebrate.

But I’m not feeling completely better, so I’m going back to bed.

#commissionearned

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Published on June 06, 2022 08:50

Patreon Microfiction: “Try to Get Comfortable.”

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“Try to Get Comfortable.” …Whenever you hear that, you just know that comfort is going to be in no way part of the immediate future, huh? I mean, obviously.

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Published on June 06, 2022 08:24

The SKIN HORSE VOLUME 11 & 12… Zoop.

Shaenon and Jeff aren’t using Kickstarter for crowdfunding their final two Skin Horse books, because of (I believe) Kickstarter’s weirdness about pushing crypto. I can’t say that I blame them, either. If it becomes an issue later I may stop using Kickstarter myself.

At any rate: last two volumes of Skin Horse! Very sad. But all good things must come to an end, alas.

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Published on June 06, 2022 08:19

June 5, 2022

Still sick! Colds suck.

Well, it ain’t Covid, ain’t strep throat, probably not a sinus infection, and definitely isn’t an allergy attack. A cold is about the only thing left. So: taking it easy, drinking plenty of fluids, and hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow. Maybe I can go see TOP GUN: MAVERICK Wednesday…

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Published on June 05, 2022 15:51

June 4, 2022

Book of the Week: Rich Man’s Sky.

It is the book loaded in my Kindle, and I am not feeling particularly up to making choices*, so I’m just going to read it until it’s time to go to bed. Wil McCarthy’s Rich Man’s Sky is perfectly good anyway. Twenty years in the future, intrigue in space, etc etc etc. Don’t mind me; I’m on Robutussin right now.

*Yup, still sick. Drinking fluids and eating matzoh.

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Published on June 04, 2022 15:47

June 3, 2022

Well, at least it’s not Covid.

But it’s definitely a sore throat, which means it’s likely a summer cold. Those definitely suck. I’m gonna go to bed early, and not go to see Top Gun tomorrow. Alas.

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Published on June 03, 2022 18:30