That earlier portrait is pretty rough looking so, by way of compensation something a little more pleasant. Herewith, young Jessica who chose to stand on one leg, for reasons best to known to her.
I fear I have been less than sociable of late. We’ve started serious work on the new lounge room and, other than that, I’ve not felt much like chatting. Read some good stories (including a very good one by Gregory Feeley in Otherworldly Maine called “Awskonomuk” which isn’t genre enough for the year’s best, but is well worth checking out), started Justine’s How to Ditch Your Fairy, and am enjoying that. Went out to a Sean Williams’ bookstore appearance where we didn’t really get to catch up (which was fair enough) and heard a lot about Star Wars (which was fair enough too). We have dinner tomorrow night, so that should be good. And then a busy, busy weekend. I’m also beginning to think about returning to work, and Calgary.
Hey, “Awskonomuk” is as much a genre work as “Arabian Wine”! It’s a secret history, or at least a story about the attraction of secret histories. (And about someone who loves and believes a revisionist theory of history but has resigned himself to never seeing it proved.)
I’m glad you liked it.
I liked it very much. I don’t know how many people will see it in Otherworldly Maine, but it deserves to be read widely.