Night Frights Contract, Tax Form Received and Returned (Also Yesterday Was Triana’s Birthday)

This one is for “Upward!” (see September 14, August 14) for the NIGHT FRIGHTS special YA edition of DARK MOON DIGEST, a PDF contract plus IRS Form W-9. This latter is so the publisher can report back to the Feds when they send me my pittance, technically not really necessary since I’ll be including it on Schedule C (“Profit or Loss from Business”) when I send my taxes in next spring. But bureaucracy is bureaucracy and isn’t that what makes the world go ’round?

Well, maybe, but more to the point, this was a job for the Monroe County Public Library scanner (cf. September 7, contract for THINGS WITH FEATHERS: STORIES OF HOPE) so, while the files came Tuesday afternoon, September 21, I wasn’t going to get to the library until Thursday the 23rd, or so I at least planned, the weather report forecasting rain for the 22nd.

Such is the writing life. Such is technology. Such is climate change, or at least rain in fall. But suffice to say, all occurred as scheduled and so, signed and scanned, the needed paperwork went back this p.m.

Also yesterday, September 22, was the Goth Cat Triana’s fifth birthday. Though officially considered an October cat, in true Goth fashion Triana arrived a few days early, on the equinox, thus bringing autumn in along with her.