Chocolat Copy Received from Alien Buddha Sun., Okayed This Late P.M.

The Alien Buddha works quickly, we already know that (see June 13). And so, yesterday, Sunday, June 30 the email from Editor/Publisher “Red”: ­Hi Everyone

Attached is the first preview of THEY’RE CONSPIRING AGAINST THE ALIEN BUDDHA TOO!

If you have any edits to request, please let me know sometime in the next few couple weeks.

Thank you

In it, my story — on a contents page of authors only, both fiction and poetry — from page 179 through 181. And scrolling down, there it was, “Chocolat,” with a French point of view (though French words and phrases in the story not set in italics, but roman along with the rest of the story, as had been discussed before as an editorial preference — nothing un-understandable, though, with at most minimal imagination) protesting a European Union Finance Council ruling adulterating the ingredients needed to define a food as genuine chocolate. A ruling actually made, incidentally, although by now some years in the past (the story itself first appeared in Third Flatiron Publishing’s IT’S COME TO OUR ATTENTION, Spring 2016).

Well . . . most of the chocolate I get, anyway, is American. And probably worse.

But in any event, typefaces and all, the story looks good (and with an updated cover for the book received as well) so, an hour or two ago, I answered the email with my “Okay.”