She makes a banner with her hair

[sovay]

My short story "A Cherry Without a Stone" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It was supposed to be a poem: yhlee had given me a handful of prompts, including "a siege of cherry blossoms." The phrase took off immediately into prose instead. The title comes from a riddle song that my mother used to sing as a lullaby, although technically her version was a cherry that had no stone. It has trees, and war, and stories; it is honest-to-God secondary-world fantasy, which is rare for me. I am back to feeling that my body has completely forgotten how to sleep.

Comments

[umadoshi]

Congrats on the story sale!

[sovay]

Congrats on the story sale!

Thank you!

[yhlee]

Yay story!

I hope sleep finds you soon.

[sovay]

Yay story!

Thank you!

I hope sleep finds you soon.

It did for about two hours!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

O my! That story sounds lovely. The song is a lullaby: I hope it will sing you to sleep.

Nine

[sovay]

O my! That story sounds lovely.

Thank you! I will link to the magazine when it's published.

I hope it will sing you to sleep.

I slept about two hours. I'm awake to take my father to British Car Day at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. The event was rescheduled from earlier in the summer.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! I am glad for my subscription at times like this. This sounds like it will be a marvelous story.

[sovay]

This sounds like it will be a marvelous story.

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it. More people should have subscriptions to Not One of Us!

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the story sale! The story sounds wonderful.

[sovay]

Congratulations on the story sale!

Thank you! I am happy about it.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well done! I've wanted to see you write trees for a while. Great title, too. I hope you've slept more since.

[sovay]

Well done! I've wanted to see you write trees for a while. Great title, too.

Thank you! (Do you have a poem or a story in this issue, by any chance? Are we TOC-mates again?)

I hope you've slept more since.

Er . . .

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

*(Do you have a poem or a story in this issue, by any chance? Are we TOC-mates again?)*

Not yet, but I'm hoping to get something in to John. Crossed fingers...

*Er . . .*

Damn, sorry to hear that.

[sovay]

Not yet, but I'm hoping to get something in to John. Crossed fingers...

Crossed expectantly!