sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-09-11 11:57 pm

Who do I listen to in these woods?

My poem "Sheela-na-Gig" has been accepted by Weird Fiction Quarterly. The market is a new one for me and an honor, since I had been encouraged to submit to an earlier issue at a point this year when it was flatly not possible. The poem itself was directly sparked by [personal profile] ashlyme, who requested one about a Green Woman. I suspect it also of responding, an appropriate nine months later, to Alex Garland's Men (2022). It makes a much better ending to the day than it began with the arrival of the gas company to switch our service over to the new main, a process which theoretically heralds the end in sight of this summer of construction and in practice sounded like all the earth-moving machinery had suddenly transferred itself to our basement.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2024-09-12 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats!!
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2024-09-12 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the poem! And I hope that the construction workers will indeed go away asap now. <3
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[personal profile] mrissa 2024-09-12 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yay poem and yay hope
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2024-09-12 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
the arrival of the gas company to switch our service over to the new main, a process which theoretically heralds the end in sight of this summer of construction and in practice sounded like all the earth-moving machinery had suddenly transferred itself to our basement.


This is beginning to sound like some kind of 1970s horror/SFF. Are you sure machinery from a dystopian future isn't haunting your house?
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[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2024-09-12 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, and hoping the construction is coming to a middle.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2024-09-12 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wohoo! That's wonderful--congratulations!
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[personal profile] phi 2024-09-12 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! Fingers crossed the construction is done soon!
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2024-09-12 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2024-09-12 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2024-09-12 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, a Green Woman! Congratulations!

I hope the Working Man will find Work to Do elsewhere, and soon.

Nine
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[personal profile] yarrowkat 2024-09-12 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
congratulations!
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[personal profile] selkie 2024-09-13 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
NEW MARKET NEW MARKET NEW MARKET!!
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[personal profile] ashlyme 2024-09-13 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well done!!! And I'm happy I helped to spark off something.
Edited 2024-09-13 08:30 (UTC)