Fay Wray Is Going to England! — On the Other Hand Accepted by Grievous Angel

Perhaps what you keyed in was the British site SCI-FI-AND-FANTASY.LAND, but what you now see says CHARLES CHRISTIAN���S URBAN FANTASIST, FEATURING THE GRIEVOUS ANGEL WEBZINE.�� It doesn���t matter.�� What does for this blog is that yesterday evening, for possibly the last March gasp for poetry acceptances, GRIEVOUS ANGEL editor Christian sent me this email:�� ���Good to hear from you again – all good pieces but the standout for me – and on a theme I haven���t seen before – is On the Other Hand.�� Love it – and will definitely use it.���

GRIEVOUS ANGEL may be recalled as having published my now Rhysling-nominated ���Beware of the Dog��� (cf. March 16; September 11, June 30 2014), a study of werewolves in modern times.�� ���On the Other Hand,��� however, is set in the past, in 1933 to be precise, and has to do with the doomed love affair between KING KONG and Ann Darrow, as played by Fay Wray.�� In short, it suggests that it may have been just as well that, in the end, it didn���t work out.

One can see from the illustration at right the seeds of disaster, his having left Fay to her own devices on the building���s ledge while he plays with biplanes.�� And Fay Wray���s autobiography with its own opening letter to Kong is titled, itself, ON THE OTHER HAND.

But for the full story check GRIEVOUS ANGEL in perhaps a few months.