The wind was blowing so hard today it whistled against the mouth of the hose for a moment when I was out watering and turned a corner. The forecast is for icy rain. Fuuuuuun.

To think how recently I was where the sun burned hot...
Since the beginning of the year I've polished off a few stories that had been lurking, just waiting for a finish. (Not polished draft--just finished off initially.)
~The Komodos story in which I take on Murphy's Law of Combat and a Regency Rake character while Evil Overlords are not steroetypical. Also, alternative history in which my dubious ancestors made a dynasty in Australia.
"This," said Marshal Draken, gazing at his cuff, "is an exercise in futility."
~The Scar story, which was percolating in my mind, not half-written like ^. It features Caucasians with an Arab/Islamic culture, assassins serving the principality, and scarification. Also, an immortal whose
EYES go unmentioned, but his hair...he's a barber who never cuts his hair. Oh was that a spoiler? Well, you probably will never see it anyway. It's the kind of thing that I know, even as I start it, will be kept under wraps for my own good.
Two weeks after Antiel died a letter came to Miyari about his assassin legacy.
~Jujitsu. Creatively titled, this story is about a punk teen (2nd POV narrator!) whose loyalty to his mysteriously high-stakes dojo wins out over...I don't want to spoil this one with too many specifics. It'll be great to post in making fun of myself eventually. Another I ought to keep under wraps.
Someone always sweeps up this curb, but they leave a line-up of your cigarette butts on the edge, side by side.
And it's got twins!
Forge Forever...
I have a lot of the books I need to put together the mapping of Jord (
Tentatively)'s quest, though man, massive amounts of ground to go over here. Jord (T) treks gradually from Maine to Alaska, stopping for an apprenticeship with a genuinely mad magician in the great lakes area. But see, this is alternate history, so I have to REALLY know where I'm talking about. The alternative history I'm having a bit of trouble on. Who knew that Tulsans didn't care about speculative racial mapping of the Caucasoid peoples? I'm going to have to get inventive about this research I believe.
Someday I'll write again.
The MySpace has music on it, BTW! http://www.myspace.com/greymantlepoets and you're done.