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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

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

My flash "Anonymity," otherwise known as Anonymous (2011) Annoyed Me So I Wrote Will/Kit, has been accepted by Fantastique Unfettered for their Shakespeare Unfettered special issue.

Oh, lovely news! Congratulations! I remember that one with great fondness.

I'm glad you were able to get eleven hours' sleep, and didn't have to shovel the snow.

What is this about a blizzard?

I'm hoping it will fizzle, but we'll see. Tomorrow's shopping list includes motor oil, gasoline, and things that can be eaten cold.

Any road, I hope all goes well for you and yours on that front.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Peter Gunn will always have a place in my heart, and a worm in my ears...

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

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..

Fabulous! I adore that piece.

Nine

[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.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Subaqueous is one of my favourite words.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Lovely and lovely!

If you get snowed in, I hope it's the snuggly, cozy, tea-and-writing sort.

[spatch]

Oh, don't worry, we've no longer got an approaching blizzard on our hands. Elliot Abrams said on WBZ this morning that a fast-moving glacier is actually rumbling on down from the Arctic and we'll all be buried under it come Sunday.

I swear they hire these guys for their hyperbole.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well done, you! It's always good to know you have more fiction out there.

A friend of mine wrote a song called "Subaqueous".

I remember The Art of Noise's cover of the Gunn theme! Never actually seen the show.