Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn
Since the light is officially supposed to have returned in my hemisphere, it is pleasing that my morning has been filled with the quartz-flood of winter sun. I could not get any kind of identifying look at the weird ducks clustered on their mirror-blue thread of the Mystic as I drove past, but I saw black, blue, buff, white, russet, green, and one upturned tail with traffic-cone feet.
On the front of ghost stories for winter, Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2024, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, is now digitally available from Psychopomp. Nephthys of the kite-winged darkness presides over its contents, which include my queer maritime ice-dream "Twice Every Day Returning." It's free to subscribers of The Deadlands and worth a coin or two on the eyes of the rest.
For the solstice itself, I finally managed to write about a short and even seasonal film-object and made latkes with my parents.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and I lit the last night's candle for the future. All these last months have been a very rough turn toward winter. I have to believe that I will be able to believe in one.
On the front of ghost stories for winter, Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2024, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, is now digitally available from Psychopomp. Nephthys of the kite-winged darkness presides over its contents, which include my queer maritime ice-dream "Twice Every Day Returning." It's free to subscribers of The Deadlands and worth a coin or two on the eyes of the rest.
For the solstice itself, I finally managed to write about a short and even seasonal film-object and made latkes with my parents.
spatch and I lit the last night's candle for the future. All these last months have been a very rough turn toward winter. I have to believe that I will be able to believe in one.
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I was wondering about that one, but only because I found it when looking for darker greens than a mallard! Thank you for weighing in! There was a sort of brilliant spatter of them on the water and then I had to keep my eyes on the road.
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we saw the sun for almost an hour this morning, in between waves of atmospheric river! just over 10 inches in the gauge since Friday. now it is raining again and it might clear briefly - or it might merely pause in the active rain without revealing the sky - on Wednesday. we are told the sun will actually return sometime saturday. welcome to the southernmost reaches of the PNW, i suppose.
happy solstice & hanukkah! there are better times ahead.
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Thank you! It is a very distinct light. Along with the tilting sun of autumn, my favorite kind.
we saw the sun for almost an hour this morning, in between waves of atmospheric river!
Mazel tov! It sounds like living on the pulp sci-fi of Venus.
happy solstice & hanukkah! there are better times ahead.
*hugs*
Thank you.
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the storm tonight, deep in the windiest part of what is turning out to be some absolutely wild weather, could almost be something like the storms below the perpetual cloud layer on Venus. except it's so very, very green here! probably greener tomorrow, after all this. tho i may not venture out to look until Saturday, which is when we are currently told to expect the rain to cease and sun to return.
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It's like a delayed-action solstice.
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😂
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This, perfectly.
May the light return for you.
*hugs*
Nine
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Thank you. May it be there for you, too.
*hugs*
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I am happy the days will get longer.
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Thank you!
I am happy the days will get longer.
It's been such a weird season.
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Loved your review and am looking forward to watching the film.
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Thank you! This has not been a good writing year, so a reprint was a real bright spot.
Loved your review and am looking forward to watching the film.
I'm so glad.