We have an A-bomb and a whole series of it, and what more do you want, mermaids?

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So I read "The Trinitite Golem" at the Brooklyn Commons Café as part of the launch party for Clockwork Phoenix 5, now available wherever clockwork phoenixes are sold.

It went wonderfully. I had a wonderful time. I got asked afterward if I was a physicist. Rob Cameron, Shveta Thakrar, Barbara Krasnoff, A.C. Wise, and C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez read from their stories and were fantastic. I hope all the recordings came out cleanly. There was apple cake. It turns out that the famous lefty radio station WBAI is now broadcast out of the same building as the Commons, which neither my husband nor I (nor my parents, who used to wake up every morning to Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends") knew before we spoke to Jim Freund. There was a lot of hugging. People were signing copies for each other like they were yearbooks. I am still operating on about three hours of sleep, which I plan to remedy almost immediately.

derspatchel bought a bottle of Coney Island Brewing Company Mermaid Pilsner in order to be able to present me with the picture of a tattooed siren. I think it is a good trophy.

I am so glad I did this after all.

Comments

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I watched online! I loved your reading.

Thank you! I was really, really happy with how it went.