categorizing:
- Book Reviews
- Building Character
- Consuite
- Feeding The Beast
- Field Notes
- Friday Fictionettes
- From the Notebook
- Idol Worship
- Joint Ventures
- Mapping Territories
- Market Alert
- Mirabile Dictu
- Musespotting
- NaNo Oh-No
- Nostalgia
- Philosophy
- Pirates What Puzzle
- Plotting And Scheming
- Political Maunderings
- Profitable Hackery
- Rejectomancy
- Routines
- Scales And Arpeggios
- Selling My Soul
- Spinning A Yarn
- Spit and Polish
- Status Report
- Support Structures
- Surfacing
- Technicalities
- Technopeasantry
- The Beast That Rolls
- Thing-a-day
- Vacuuming the Cat
- Whining
- Yahoo! Yeehah! Woopie!
works progressing:
- The Drowning Boy
- Becoming Sara Peltier
- The Golden Bridle
- Faith-Based Charity, Pagan Style
- The Seeds of Our Future
- Heroes To Believe In
- Kit's First Spell
- The Bookwyrm's Hoard
- The Kissing Room
- Getting Out
- Untying The Knot
- Of Clay Fashioned
- Right Off The Page
- Elegy For Trilobite Blue
- The Upbringing Of A Geek: An Appreciation
- Turbulence
- The Great Selkie
- Cut & Paste
- The Impact of Snowflakes
- The Stormsinger's Daughter
- Right Door, Wrong Time
- Knowing the Territory
- Narcissus Pastorale
- The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out
- A Wish For Captain Hook
- The Witness
- Little Beanie in R'lyeh
- A Handshake Deal
- Code Name Maui: The Top Half
- The Day the Sidewalks Melted
- Stormsinger's Birth
- Stormsinger's Quest
- Current Work-For-Hire Assignment
- Thinking of Home
- A Surfeit Of Turnips
- Lambing Season
- The Timing of Trains
- Like A Bad Penny
- Your Disembodied Friends Would Like To Remind You
- Janet's Fibercrafts and Miscellaneous Services
- Melissa's Ghost
- First Breath
- Ants Go Marching Latte-ward, Hurrah
- Unfinished Letter Found in an Abandoned Farmhouse
- Present Perfect
- Deaths in a Dream
- The Blackbird Is Involved in What I Know
- The Interfaith Intercessional Fellowship Meets Saturdays at Seven
- Caroline's Wake
- Caveat Emptor
- Last Week's Rhododendron
- Passengers
- Mephisto's Toaster and Other Stories
- A is for A is for...
- Dear You:
- It's For You
- ...Not With a Bang, But a Snicker
- The one about the goblin market in Omaha
- Iron Wheels
- Comin' For to Carry Me Home
- When the Bottom Dropped Out of the Soul Market
- Other Theories of Relativity
- Priesthood Has Its Privileges
- Breaking and Entering
- Those Who Would Dance for the Gods
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Fruit of the Tree Is a Story that None Must Tell
- Down Wind
- The Blacksmith Goes to the Ball
- East of Omaha, West of San Francisco
- While the Sun Still Shines
- What Dreams May Hatch
- The Hound at the Heart of the Maze
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- It's Not Weird If It Works
- The Revolution Will Not Be Processed
- Wrong Thoughts in the Age of Miracles
- Your Neighbor's Keeper
- The Importance of Faerie Godmothers
- Keeping Time
- Escape from Monday's Diner
- Stealing the Crown Jewels
- What Is Sacrificed on Your Altar
- Moon Island: A Traveler's Guide
- Three Reasons to Be Afraid of the Dark
- Picking Up the Pieces
- The Metamorphosis of Anita Chaplain
- If on a Winter's Night Two Travellers...
- Ink That Casts a Shadow
- A Bridge Just Far Enough
- Please To Confirm Your Appointment With BRIGHT SMILES!
- No One's Home
- The Divorce Arch
- Not Fade Away
- Out of Order
- The Moon and the Mage's Gloves
- The Fourth Miracle of Emmaline Gray
- The Hole in the Middle of the Block
- An Office in Transition
- To Come Before the Queen
- Because You Weren't There
- A New Doll for Polly
- Shipwreck in Progress
- You Could Go a Long Way in Shoes Like Those
- Adventures in Posthumous Journalism
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Each Note Passes Away Forever
- All the Flowers of the Field
- Ill Met by Moonlight
- Stand By for Your Assignment (full-length)
- Protective Coloration
- And Did You Bring Enough for Everyone?
- Mucking Out the Kelpie
- The Once and Future Hot Potato
- A Fine Day for a Picnic
- How Featherkind Got Its Song
- Still Life with Coyote
- The Spy Who Croaked
- The Celebrated Frog Forger of Clackamas County
- The New Criminal Element
- How the Lassie Didn't Go East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- A Familiar Situation
- A Word in Your Ear
- I Didn't Ask for Champagne
- In the Shadow of Next Tuesday
- Ephemeral States
- Future's So Bright
- The Oracle Takes You Back
- The Thing with Feathers
- Mala's Desert Muse
- What Your Name is Worth
- Premature Labor
- The Wine Cellar That Wished
- The Magpie's Big Heist
- The Artist's Apprentice
- Doors Do Swing Both Ways
- Day-to-Day Invasions
- (Ellen and the man who was a tree)
- The Touch of Iron
- Weird Quantum Science
- It's That Little Something Extra
- The Call Is Coming From Inside the Building
- How Fetches Become Real
- This Will Be My Origin Story
- In the Hall of the Gnome King
- Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night
- Reviving the Legends
- The Day the Storefront Let Jen Bledsoe In
- The Queen of Carnival
- The Spindle's Spell
- Sunlighting (after revising "A Week in the Life of a Simple Houseplant")
- Objectivity and the Art of the Documentary
- The Right Child
- Father Frank's Peaceable Kingdom
- Maggie, Queen of Darkness
- Happy Birthday, Dear Bob
- What They Found in the Attic
- Partners in Crime
- Singing in the Shower
- The Revolution of the Flies
- Survivor's Guilt
- Something Wicked
- Late Registration
- Dr. Green Ascends to the Nether World
- Making Friends (original Friday Fictionette)
- How the Drought Was Ended
- By Moonlight, a Dream of Vengeance
- All Dolled Up
- The Starring Role
- Living It Up
- DON'T WALK
- In the Infinite Shadows of Eden
- A Few Words Before We Begin
- Shoulda Been a Wizard
- Tit for Tat
- The Witch on the Corner
- Aya's Last Spell
- Five Good Reasons
- The Actress Who Went to Utter North, and What She Found There
- How the Elephant's Child Lost Her Voice
- The Miraculous Hide
- Kill or Cure
- The Land Exhales
- The Sandpit Oracle
- The Gold Drug
- Known Hazards of Employment in a Pawn Shop
- The Witch's Stories
- Containment Breach
- Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
- A Most Competitive Compensation Plan
- The Only Winning Move...
- In Your Lifetime
- The Ties that Bind
- Preventable Dudes
- The Parable of the Singer
- This Time We Play for All the Marbles
- CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP
- Strange Tidings
- Individual Results May Vary
- Falling Toward the Light
- A Bad Case of the Stubborns
- Diving For Fairy Stones
- How Grief Transforms You
- Tina, Destroyer of Worlds
- Love, Death, and Really Bad Movies
- Intervention
- Seven Chickadees
- White Noise
- Word Made Flesh
- In the Suburbs of Good and Evil
- Legacy
- The Manic Pixie Call Girl Experience
- The Rutabagas Remember
- Love of Country
- Chelsea's Second-Rate Muse
- Come Home to Roost
- The Youth Fairy
- The Croquet Lawn, and What They Found There
- The Rarest of Prey
- Extreme Measures at Fourteen
- Extreme Measures at Fourteen (full-length flash)
- The Ones Who Don't Walk Away Fast Enough
- There's an App for That
- The Education of Baby Rocket
- The Proof is in the Post
- Lights Out
- Electing a Chair
- Can We Have a Little Privacy Over Here
- When in Rome
- Taking Care of Bigfoot
- The Soup Witch's Funeral Dinner
- Tomorrow Belongs to the Dragons
- Party Time
- Survival, After
- Contract Negotiations
- My Best Friend's Girlfriend
- Cat Therapy (was: Adventures in Felinity)
- Payback
- Encore
- Ten Uses for a Dozen Red Roses
- Adolescence Is a Time of Changes
- Highlights for Creator Gods
- Mardel's Salamander
- We're All in This Together
- Protocol for Visiting Witches
- Change'll Do You Good
- The Poisoned Chalice
- Living Undercover
- The Chance of a Lifetime
- Your Turn
- What Dreams May Come
- Title TBD (horror story: nostalgia diner)
- Lord Alchemist's Harvest
- Your Robotic Confidante
- Call That Stewardship
- Apotheosis
- Love in the Time of Lizard People
- Thinking Outside the Dollhouse
- Right on Time
- A Practical Guide to Your Magical Hero Destiny
- The Indecisive Lifeguard
- At Night, the Dead
- How To Become Weightless
- The Best Revenge
- Eyes in the Rain
- Two Weeks By Daylight
- The Story Master
- Hold the Door
- One Story, Two People
- The Huntsman's Assignment
- Listening
- How the Royal Stablemaster Won the War
- Growing Up Is Optional
- On the Predilections of Drakes
- Triptych: Dryad Green
- What Queens Are For
- The Ascent of Inanna (poem)
- Human Capital
- Marla in Two Rooms
- Real Friends
- She Danced for the Queen
- The Mardi Gras Tree
- The Piano and Her Boy
- The Lab Rat
- The Innkeeper's Curse
- README.txt
- Lost: One Memory
- One Hell of a Guy
- Swallowed Up
- Your SmartFurnace Needs Love Too
- Cri de Coeur
- On Dirkmere
- The Memory of Flight
- The Traveler's House
- A Gryphon Walks Into a Bar
- Hardly St. Francis
- Inherit the Earth
- The Size of the World
- Reasonable Accommodations
- Culture Clash
- What the Desert Dreams
- What Is Not Prohibited
- My Sister Draws Things
- How It Begins
- Companion Dolls
- A Separate World
- Invasive Species
- Misery Loves Company
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Making Friends
- Bride of the River
- Leveling Up
- Where the Streetlights Never Come On
- Pilgrim's Voyage
- Who's Afraid of the Dark?
- When It Calls, You Have to Go
- The New Undertaker
- King of All He Surveyed
- Transplant
- One Oracle, Two Swords, and a Thief
- Revisions
- The Old Weaver Retires
- An Emerging Talent
- In Memoriam
- On Lightning Plain
- The Cursed Mascot
- Across Great Distances
- Burning Bright
- Incognito
- Symbiosis
- A Changed World
- Just Doing My Job
- One Last Spectacle
- The Book People of Bloomsbury Falls
- On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland
- Fiat Nox
- The Curious Incident of the Black Dog of the Night
Closure Is A Good Thing
Thu 2006-02-23 20:38:47 (in context)
- 3,000 words (if poetry, lines) long
Got some email today. It appears that the She's Such A Geek anthology will not be including anything written by me.
*Sigh*
But a rejection letter is always better than no letter at all. I'd been a little concerned when no response had shown up by the 15th, which I think had been the date they'd set as the latest followup time.
I'm not entirely sure that this essay really has any other market, since I sort of wrote it to order. But I don't throw anything away. So the slush piles of the publishing world may yet see this thing once more. 'Til then... ta!