Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn

[sovay]

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. 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.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

the quartz-flood of winter sun, i like that. i can see it.

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.

[sovay]

the quartz-flood of winter sun, i like that. i can see it.

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.

[yarrowkat]

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.

[sovay]

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.

It's like a delayed-action solstice.

[yarrowkat]

😂