A half million dead drunks can't seem to teach us a single thing

[sovay]

Upper Rubber Boot Books' Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good (ed. Joanne Merriam) came out last November, but due to (atypical) shipping snafus my contributor's copy just found its way to my door. Then I opened it to the back-to-back retellings of Megan Chaudhuri's "First mouse model of Innsmouth Fish-man Syndrome draft 2 USE THIS VERSION – edits by MK.doc" and Angela Slatter's "The Song of Sighs" chased with the sea-haunting ritual of Premee Mohamed's "Below the Kirk, Below the Hill" and I felt in very good company. My contribution is the not at all oceanic "Like Milkweed," inspired by a comment of asakiyume's about edible plants and originally published in Not One of Us #52. And that was a very nice thing to receive, because otherwise the defining event of today has been a dentist's appointment that took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. spatch came out with me and we picked up donuts, because what else should you eat after having your teeth cleaned?

Comments

[larryhammer]

"First mouse model of Innsmouth Fish-man Syndrome draft 2 USE THIS VERSION – edits by MK.doc" is an AWESOMEST TITLE EVAH!!1!.

[sovay]

"First mouse model of Innsmouth Fish-man Syndrome draft 2 USE THIS VERSION – edits by MK.doc" is an AWESOMEST TITLE EVAH!!1!.

I like the story, too!

[dhampyresa]

First mouse model of Innsmouth Fish-man Syndrome draft 2 USE THIS VERSION – edits by MK.doc
HAHAHA

[sovay]

HAHAHA

It goes as well as you might imagine!

[gwynnega]

Donuts after the dentist: the perfect "take that!" to dentistry.

[sovay]

Donuts after the dentist: the perfect "take that!" to dentistry.

They were profoundly satisfying.

[wpadmirer]

Very, very cool!

[sovay]

Very, very cool!

Thank you!

I am in keeping with the aquatic theme!

[kore]

//casually swims by* and drops this link

http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/news/comiclist-previews-jim-henson-s-the-storyteller-sirens-1


*okay nobody would go swimming in Puget Sound but mermaids with rubber skin

Re: I am in keeping with the aquatic theme!

[sovay]

//casually swims by* and drops this link

Thank you! I hadn't even heard that was happening.

*okay nobody would go swimming in Puget Sound but mermaids with rubber skin

Maybe you get chemosynthesis, like at hydrothermal vents.

[asakiyume]

I really, really must get this book.

[sovay]

I really, really must get this book.

I really recommend it: I love the conceit of the anthology and the stories I've read so far.