Erzähle, Muse, vom Erzähler, dem an den Weltrand verschlagenen

[sovay]

Today, after I finally hauled myself out of bed and finished blinking at my e-mail—fortunately, the professor wants only one serious revision in the entire paper; unfortunately, it's material I put in a footnote specifically so that I would not have to deal with it in the actual text—I checked my mail and was very pleased to discover my contributor's copies of Change, the latest annual not-Not One of Us one-off. It contains two pieces of mine, the flash "Sea-Changes" (dedicated to erzebet, whose "Fisher's Bride" should illustrate the text) and poem "Bloodlines" (which almost certainly isn't the only vampiric Pesach poem in the history of the world, but I keep hoping), as well as a selection of other strange and changing pieces. I particularly recommend time_shark's acid-trip epic "Tithonus, on the Shore of Ocean," Kiel Stuart's Prisoner-esque "Memory Isle," and Patricia Russo's soft-spoken and unsettling "She Takes Up Distractions." As soon as it's available from Project Pulp, I'll post a link.

In other news—

lesser_celery tree-wrestles.

kraada free-associates.

elisem songwrites.

And schreibergasse has one of the more amusing footnotes I've seen lately, and I've seen a lot of footnotes lately.

And now I should go check on my laundry. In order to arrive in Brattleboro before noon tomorrow ("I started on a journey about a year ago . . ."), I'm looking at a six o'clock alarm and an eight o'clock bus. I'm not a morning person. I'm not a morning person. If I want to look at a sunrise, I'll stay up for it, thank you very much. But since tomorrow night I'll need my brain for storytelling and my voice for singing, tonight I must sleep. And on Monday, I return from the granite north and deliver this paper to a class full of students who actually expect intelligence from me. I figure if I can do that, I'll never have a problem with a conference in my life . . .

Comments

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
6:00 alarm: right up there with our travel plans for going to Istanbul in April...

> I figure if I can do that, I'll never have a problem with a conference in my life . . .
Maybe. Are you also likely to be hungover and regretting the number of books you purchased on Monday?

[sovay]

And I got out of bed at seven this morning in order to return to New Haven—in the snowstorm—so I could deliver a lecture. I think my brain has just resigned.

Wherefore are you going to Istanbul in April?

[janni.livejournal.com]

which almost certainly isn't the only vampiric Pesach poem in the history of the world, but I keep hoping

Mine is a short story, not a poem. :-)

[sovay]

Cool! Where would I find a copy?

[janni.livejournal.com]

It showed up in Sisters in Fantasy 2 (Susan Shwartz, editor) some years ago--but is, alas, out of print.

It might be findable used, but I've not seen a copy about in a while--or I could just email you a copy, instead. :-)

[sovay]

I could deal with that: thank you! Have you an address at which I might contact you?

[janni.livejournal.com]

I'm janni@simner.com

[yukihada.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy you put up a link to Project Pulp. I've never heard of it before but am especially excited by the Rhysling Anthologies. I'm gathering materials webwise and tenuous to use in secondary education that might connect not only with the students themselves but also with genres they wouldn't naturally be disposed to reading (especially in a classroom setting.) I've been wondering where and how to get the poems collected in one place, and this is perfect.