A March of Little People
Comet Pojmanski (C/2006 A1) , discovered on January 2nd, had its closest approach (115.4 million kilometers) to earth in the pre-dawn hours yesterday. I may stay up tonight and try to catch a glimpse of it. I've never seen a comet with a turquoise tail
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You forgot to mention the "Pimp" song, though. *LOL*
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I've long wanted to see Whitby. Both for the Dracula connections and because it was important in 19th-Century palaeontology. There are some wonderful Jurassic rocks exposed at Whitby.
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Cool. There have also been pterosaurs and ichthyosaurs found there. And plesiosaurs, too, I think.
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wow.
thank you.
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just finished reading "Untitled 17" from SIRENIA DIGEST #3...
wow.
thank you.
You are very welcome. :)
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You know, this all makes me wonder as to your currently current opinion on crafting vampire fiction. You've rather famously disdained it in the past, but several of the erotica pieces seem to be heading in that direction. I was surprised to see the number of them in your work that you mentioned yesterday (in addition to "The Drowned Geologist" [tangentially related to Dracula] and the Joan of Arc-related short story I happened to discover over this weekend while recovering from a hangover at a friend's house). I don't mean to be bitchy, it was just something I assumed to be less prevalent. As there been a change of heart on the matter?
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It is less prevalent, ceratinly, though there are the vampires in the yellow house on Benefit Street, vampires in "So Runs the World Away" and "In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers," Low Red Moon and Daughter of Hounds. It's not that I ever really stopped writing vampires, so much as that I toned them way down and moved away from most of the modern clichés, vampires sensu Rice and Collins and whoever else. Then, when I began the vignettes, well there's no point in denying that vampirism is one of my kinks, so it was prety much impossible and pointless to try to stay away from them.
Look at it that way, and it's not really that I ever stopped writing about vampires (regardless of what I might have said to the contrary). It's hard not to be reactionary about vampires. There's so, so much shit out there.
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And I appreciate the downplay, not to mention the intentional muddying of what/who qualifies as a vampire: the vampires in Five of Cups are different from the Vampires in the Benefit St. house are very different from the "youthful" ones we meet in "So the World Runs Away" are so very very different than the ones we meet in the vignettes and FT&T. I like it, I just hadn't put it all together.
Well there's no point in denying that vampirism is one of my kinks
No need for shame in your game. When the vignettes are hot, they're freaking hot. When the eroticism moves away from my personal kink, well, they're still pretty, entertaining stories. I'd be curious to see at the six-month mark which story the readers found most successfully erotic (as opposed to just well-written, imaginative, or whatever). I don't know whether it would be of any use or interest to you, but it might be amusing to see ( ... )
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And those are the sorts of vampires I'm not sure I could ever write again. The post-Ricean vampires. Whatever we should call them. I'm glad that I did, when I did, but I'm not sure I could take them seriously again.
'd be curious to see at the six-month mark which story the readers found most successfully erotic (as opposed to just well-written, imaginative, or whatever). I don't know whether it would be of any use or interest to you, but it might be amusing to see which particular stories got us hot under the collar/waistband.
I agree. This would be interesting, and maybe even helpful. At the seventh month mark, there shall be a poll. I say the seventh month, because issue 0 was the bit from Daughter of Hounds.
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Thank you. :) However, someone else kindly sent me a copy a while back.
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