So fill me up with chemicals and other people's words

I have just found out that my novelette "The Dybbuk in Love" will be reprinted in Sean Wallace's Best New Fantasy: 2005, due out from Prime Books in early summer. This pleases me for a number of reasons, not the least that the anthology will have national distribution (i.e., the shelves of Barnes & Noble).* But this is also a story that's close to my heart, so I'm glad to see it out in the world. It was written in August 2004, to a near-exclusive soundtrack of the Klezmatics' Possessed and Jill Tracy's Quintessentially Unreal, and it's dedicated to Shoshana Stern and Michael Zoosman for totally different reasons. I will no doubt squee like a schoolgirl when my contributor's copies arrive.

In other news, lesser_celery informs me that this year's not-Not One of Us collection, Change, is now up at Project Pulp. Don't miss time_shark's mini-epic "Tithonus, on the Shore of Ocean" or Patricia Russo's "She Takes Up Distractions." There's also a poem and a flash of mine in there, for which I must thank erzebet.

"Bones and Bitters" has evolved a road trip. I haven't even driven in a year and a half; my license hasn't expired, but I wouldn't let me behind the wheel. I am so not qualified to write this story . . .

*The original chapbook is still available, for those who like Anselm Feuerbach and story notes.