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Today was spent almost entirely with

nineweaving and the Archers, and managed simultaneously to be a good writing day; if not in wordcount, at least, then in returns.

Sirenia Digest #14 is now available. I am reasonably pleased with how "A Voice in Caves" came out, and

greygirlbeast's "The Sphinx's Kiss" is a superlative piece even by the digest's usual standards—think Oscar Wilde's Salomé as reinterpreted by Tom Waits. Check it out for yourself if you don't believe me.

greygirlbeast's offer still holds.

On the print-and-ink front, I am now also in possession of Midrash, the latest Not One of Us Special Publication. In its pages can be found my poems "Perdidit Spolia" and "Orpheus at the Bimah," as well as

rushthatspeaks' "The Finland Woman,"

hans_the_bold's "Ilium," and other slant and strange retellings. Since the untimely demise of Project Pulp, I have no handy link to point to for its purchase, but I'm sure some accommodation can be reached.

My flash "Pisces" has been accepted by Full Unit Hookup. The piece was inspired by a Roman mosaic I saw several years ago in a museum in Italy—I failed entirely to note down where it came from, or even where it is currently on display, but it did depict dolphins and flatfish and crabs. There is no actual zodiac in this story.

Watch this space for thoughts on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. I love Anton Walbrook.

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I really liked A Voice in Caves.

Clever idea, vight solid ambiance. Oddly, subtly creepy. The rhythm gave the impression of seeing things in mirrors the entire time.

I will eagerly look for your other stuff.

I really liked A Voice in Caves.

Thank you! It's one of the pieces that I finished and genuinely couldn't tell for a few days how it had come out, so I'm very glad to hear this.

Oddly, subtly creepy. The rhythm gave the impression of seeing things in mirrors the entire time.

That's a compliment.

I will eagerly look for your other stuff.

I hope you like it as well.

Do you write?

Yes, I write. I write all day, for a living. For publication. But not like you. I write legal material, published in the public record.

When I was in my 20s and younger, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of fiction and poetry and several plays that were performed. (As a really little kid, I wrote, acted, and directed neighborhood prodcutions, a la Our Gang.)

I kind of burned out and stopped writing during law school (I think it kills almost everyone's impulse to art, which is one main reason I discourage people who tell me they want to go to law school).

It's always on my mind, to start writing again. I think I will at some point.

Presently, I am a voracious consumer of other people's good writing.

And if you want another kind of love, I'll wear a mask for you

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