I heard the grey wolf sing her serenade at night

[sovay]

[reposted from last night, on account of Livejournal being totally borked]

My epic collaboration with Mike Allen and Nicole Kornher-Stace, "The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves," is now online at Apex Magazine. Interview conducted by Francesca Forrest here, outtakes here. I keep forgetting I actually wrote a sestina for this poem.

I dreamed last night about following a shadowy sort of cult, the kind that draws circles on bare apartment floors and chooses sacrifices from among themselves, but I also dreamed about day planners and waiting at bus stops in nicotine-lit nighttime rain, talking to janitors in off-season university stairwells, so it was clearly one of those lifestyles that is much less romantic in person.

I am so tired. It would be nice if my brain would come back.

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[sovay]

He's been a big influence on many of us, particularly seanan_mcguire who's very fond of his Preston Miller.

cucumberseed wrote "Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds" as what-happened-next for "Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover." I refer to it as the second-best murder ballad that Trad. never wrote—the best, of course, being the song itself.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I've always theorized that the protagonist of Crocodile Man is the son from Cat-Eye Willie but never actually thought to ask.

I <3 murder ballads, so I'm going to go read cucumberseed's work. :)

[sovay]

I've always theorized that the protagonist of Crocodile Man is the son from Cat-Eye Willie but never actually thought to ask.

I think they belong to different times, but definitely the same pack of archetype.

I <3 murder ballads, so I'm going to go read cucumberseed's work.

It was also reprinted in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

It was also reprinted in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009.

I have actually added just that book to my Amazon wishlist for that reason. :)

I think they belong to different times, but definitely the same pack of archetype.

There was in fact a time travel theory associated with this idea.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I figure it's the least I can do to support other Dave Carter fans who see the potential for stories in his songs, as I do. :)