Lili St. Crow's Blog, page 162

Bloody-Haired Beltane

Last night I did dream of flying–a good omen, indeed. Happy Beltane, my friends, and may your bonfires be fruitful. And yet, even though it’s Beltane, it is a Monday. How can I tell, you ask? Little Prince: *taps at the door* Me: *groans* Miss B: SOMEONE AT THE DOOR! ALERT! ALERT! Little Prince: I […]

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Tupperware

Detritus fascinates me. I can’t see a forgotten or rubbished object without wondering how it ended up in precisely that place. I make up stories about them, about the people or events that carried bits of things elsewhere. On a ramble with B, I came across this bright yellow lid, in a forlorn just-past-the-sidewalk space […]

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Monday Didn’t Break Me

Sunday night, the washer stopped working, and the Little Prince spilled a whole glass of ice water all over his nightstand. Plus there was the dropping of things, a couple other breakages, and even though I’d managed to get my housecleaning chores done, the entire thing just made me want to go to bed. Cue […]

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Weekend Reading

The weekend, with alternating sun and drenching cool rain, has spun spring into high gear. Fortunately, the winter’s hard freezes seem to have put a dent in the slug population, or my hostas have the jump on the things, I can’t tell which. It’s nice not to have them blasted by slug-trails as soon as […]

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Seal, Solomon

One of the parks in the area has small signs for native plants. Miss B thinks they’re morning newspapers; it was difficult getting her snoot away to take a picture. She’ll sniff all day if I let her, eyes rolling back in her head and her entire being focused on untangling who passed by and […]

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Bear, Storm

Pouring rain one moment, blinding sunshine the next. It’s definitely spring. Along with muting a few Certain Keywords for a week, I decided to take yesterday mostly off social media. It was nice to sink fully into a story and not check what new beast was slouching to Bethlehem and Armageddon at the same time. […]

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Overwhelmed

Yesterday, I hit my limit, and muted a few words from my Twitter stream. I just got overwhelmed, and caught myself thinking several times that perhaps the people who voted that malignant mango-colored mudhole in deserve the pain they’re about to experience. The trouble with that is so many innocent people will also suffer, and […]

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Ostara, Again

Due to reader demand, the Keeper books are back in print! I still get people asking me when Avatar will be finished; each time I have to say “when I can devote some writing time to it.” Paid projects come first, because Mama’s got a mortgage. I may bring out a few novellas as Anna […]

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Card Castles

The Little Prince, since he has lost some electronics privileges (don’t ask, it’s rough raising teenagers, that’s all I can say) has been forced to find alternative amusements. Card castles are fast becoming the new favourite, and I’m called upon to take pictures of the ones he’s particularly proud of. No matter how old they […]

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Five Days

Five days. That’s how long it took to finish two projects spurred by the 3am Whatifs. There was revision involved, and formatting, and the end result is just a few more hours of waiting before the links go live. *sigh* It’s been a while since an experiment took me over so thoroughly, which is another […]

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