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All the Things

Today I mean to do ALL THE THINGS. Including paint the new scrapes on my fists with liquid bandage. (Hello, acetone burn!) No, I have not been training my kung-fu against a sandpaper post. I’ve just been clumsy lately. And I can no longer plunge my hands into boiling water for long periods of time […]

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Star. Wars. Fish.

Our local craft store is home to more than a few kindred souls. I laughed until I sneezed, and nobody paid any attention. (They’re used to things like that, I guess.) Betta fish in lovely little vases? Sure. But these fish are special. (Kylo and Solo need to be separated a little more than the […]

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REVIEW: Life and Fate

This last weekend I finished Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. I’d heard of Grossman several times, of course–along with Ehrenburg he was the Soviet war correspondent of World War II’s Eastern Front. Or, as the Russians call it, the Great Patriotic War. (Ehrenburg would disagree with Grossman sharing his pedestal, I suppose. But I don’t.) […]

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Fairytales, Tooth and Claw

Once I had written Cami and Ellie’s stories, well, Ruby couldn’t be far behind. I had only foggy idea of what her story entailed. It was one of those situations where I just had to trust that the Muse knew what she was doing and it would turn out all right. Red Riding Hood has […]

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Perfect Skull

Me: LOOK AT WHAT I’M TEMPTED TO BUY.[1] The Princess: DO EET. Sister 1: …I hope that’s not a real animal. Me: Uh, no, it’s resin. The Princess: We can put it on the front step. If there is a more perfect explication of my, my daughter’s, and my middle sister’s personalities than this, I […]

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Fairytales, Survival’s Price

My week of fairytales continues! I’ve never liked Cinderella. The idea that one must be patient and submissive even under the worst treatment and someday, someday you’ll be rewarded strikes me as damaging at best and a culturally approved way to groom people to be abuse victims at worse. I was always faintly uncomfortable with […]

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Fairytales, Twos and Threes

One does not simply walk into fairytales. Not without an axe and a pocketful of breadcrumbs, anyway. And when you are inside, you must look carefully at every face, because it carries an echo of its opposite. Nameless started with a single image: an injured little girl in the snow in front of a gleaming-black […]

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Badonkadonkus Felinum

I had occasion to take this picture of Madame A yesterday. She bears little resemblance to the scrawny baby her rescuers found. Now she is a queen, and baby, well. Baby got back. I half suspect she was a dog in a past life, because her furry belly is not a trap. Despite having pitons […]

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Bad Fuel

So my reward for putting in a new villain scene in a finished zero draft yesterday was…3k words falling out of my head on the Redneck Zombie Apocalypse With Librarian story. I am seriously considering finishing that for the Selkie, mostly because it makes me giggle and I like having fun. (Such as it is.) […]

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Can’t Will Myself Better

Ugh. Another one of those “everything is horrid and nothing helps” days. I know things are coming, they’ll be here soon, things will get better, la la la. It’s just hard to wait when you feel like everything around you is on fire and falling into a sea of relatively mild (for a chestburster) acid. […]

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