Infinitely slowly, but it grows

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My flash piece "And Black Unfathomable Lakes" has been accepted by Not One of Us. I had sent it to lesser_celery for an opinion on whether it worked independent of The Brides of Dracula (1960), whose ending inspired it: apparently the answer was yes. Blame handful_ofdust. I am very pleased about this. Among other things, it is the first fiction of any length I've been able to finish in some time.

(Happy centenary, Peter Cushing.)

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

That's really wonderful, Sonya. It's a great piece, and certainly hits that particular sweet spot between fic and 'tion, especially since you're working from a public domain canon but not really naming anybody. I'm very glad more people will get to see it, and that you get to claim it on your bibliography, because it's well worth claiming.;)

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I'm very glad more people will get to see it, and that you get to claim it on your bibliography, because it's well worth claiming.

Thank you! It was an unexpected piece and I am very happy about it.

(Now send John a poem or something and we can share the ToC!)

Also, because I cannot respond on Tumblr to your post about Whitstable: I have just e-mailed the publisher about ordering a copy by check rather than PayPal, because it sounds excellent and in some ways like a gentler, realist version of Fright Night. I recognized Stephen Volk's name without being able to place any of his stories and then remembered he co-wrote The Awakening (2011), so this has definitely gone from "curiosity I might pick up if I ran across it in a dealer's room" to "what the hell, it's worth having rice cakes for dinner another night." Thank you for the pointer!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh, no problem! I'm probably going to revisit, expand and fold that post into one which also looks at Prospero's Mirror, another small press book I recently bought because its protagonist is M.R. James, which I didn't find quite as successful in its RPF aspirations. But yeah, this is totally your kind of book. There's at least one passage I feel like you could have written, which I'll quote.

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There's at least one passage I feel like you could have written, which I'll quote.

All right; I'm curious.

(Prospero's Mirror is a great title; I'm sorry it didn't live up.)