The stubble it lies still with blood-red poppies overlaid

[sovay]

My poems "Sometimes the Birds, at Random" and "Last Letters" are now online at Through the Gate. It's a small issue, but a stellar one: mountain folklore by rose_lemberg, Antarctic photographs by selidor, sea-science katabasis by Jack Hollis Marr and a truthful crane wife by Brittany Warman and mariness on the bitter origins of sweet perfume. Notes are included. Go forth and read! Find some way to support this magazine; it is tiny and brilliant every time.

I am still sick and this cough refuses to clear off. But it is a beautiful sunny day and there is poetry. These are things to hold on to.

[edit] . . . and I just found out that my short story "In Winter" has been selected for reprint in Michael Matheson's The Humanity of Monsters (ChiZine, 2015).

That also makes me happy. (And I can't wait to see the ToC!)

Comments

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

So I read the title of this post and for one brief, confused moment imagined it was a particularly fanciful way of talking about having cut oneself while shaving.

[sovay]

So I read the title of this post and for one brief, confused moment imagined it was a particularly fanciful way of talking about having cut oneself while shaving.

I'm sorry, I'm afraid it's just your standard agricultural metaphor for war.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

You have sown love in my heart!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh these all look marvelous--thanks for the link. And three cheers for "In Winter"!

[sovay]

Oh these all look marvelous--thanks for the link.

It's a really, really strong issue.

And three cheers for "In Winter"!

Thank you! I'm just starting to hear about the rest of the contributors to the project—rose_lemberg, leahbobet—and I think it's going to be amazing.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

God, I love "In Winter." That's excellent!;)

[sovay]

God, I love "In Winter." That's excellent!

Thank you! The request came out of the blue and it really delighted me.