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My flash "Anonymity," otherwise known as Anonymous Annoyed Me So I Wrote Will/Kit, has been accepted by Fantastique Unfettered for their Shakespeare Unfettered special issue. I am rather pleased about this, especially since it was written as a complete in-joke.

I had the very great pleasure this morning of waking a little after six o'clock and seeing the snow on all the roofs and wires, underwater blue (Angela Carter, subaqueous) in the light just before dawn, and going straight back to bed and not moving until after noon. I slept eleven hours. Didn't make as much difference as I'd like, but I'm still catching up on a rocky week. Didn't matter. There was snow and I didn't have to shovel it and I went back to sleep.

lesser_celery showed me the first two episodes of Peter Gunn (1958–61) tonight. They're wonderful stylish noir shorts; I recognized the music immediately. I just associated it with the Blues Brothers.

DooWee & Rice has made the Globe's Cheap Eats.

What is this about a blizzard?

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad your Will/Kit story was accepted. I remember urging you to submit it to them, but have no idea if you were already thinking of doing so before I spoke up. Do you happen to recall? The important thing is, you did submit it, and the outcome is no surprise -- a wonderful piece, that I wish you might be moved to one day expand upon.

I am a little sad to say that my own submission to them, the short play "A Gross of Nails", about the boy Shakespeare, was declined: the editor wrote, "Thank you for your patience while we took a long time considering your play. It did come close, but ultimately, the fit was just not perfect, it did not mesh well with the other pieces. Thank you again, and I do hope you find a good home for this." Thing is, it grapples with some very tough issues, a topic that is met with almost universal discomfort, including my own. I tried to speak an uncomfortable truth, and believe I succeeded, but I can well understand that the result didn't easily fit in with the other pieces they accepted. The editor's kind hope to the contrary, I have to wonder if the play will ever find any kind of home at all.

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I'm so glad your Will/Kit story was accepted. I remember urging you to submit it to them, but have no idea if you were already thinking of doing so before I spoke up. Do you happen to recall?

Thank you! You almost certainly were a contributing factor, although I suspect I could blame nineweaving and strange_selkie as well.

The editor's kind hope to the contrary, I have to wonder if the play will ever find any kind of home at all.

Send it to Not One of Us? What's the wordcount?

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You almost certainly were a contributing factor, although I suspect I could blame nineweaving and strange_selkie as well.

Wonderful company to be in!

Send it to Not One of Us? What's the wordcount?

Oh! A lovely thought, thank you. It's 1,806 words. If that's not too long, may I have the honor of submitting it to you directly?

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If that's not too long, may I have the honor of submitting it to you directly?

No, because I'm not the editor, but I'd love to read it anyway!

E-mail submissions go to John Benson here.