The leaves will bury every year

time_shark tagged me for that happiness meme last night, so it's lucky for him I can report that my poem "Amal and the Night Visitors" (written, of course, for tithenai) has been accepted by Goblin Fruit and "The Road to Volodny (Partisan Song)" will appear in Not One of Us' upcoming one-off, (Going Going) GONE, because otherwise my announcement for New Year's Eve is that my laptop—at barely a year and a half—has died. May it be my scapegoat for the last rags of 2008 and may all the bad luck that might have clung around the new year go with it, or this whole out-with-the-old is going to be a little too ironic to drink to. At least it's snowing. Happy New Year, all.