It's Friday! I'm swamped and feeling swampish, exhausted from a rollicking bout of insomnia last night, and struggling with New Dog of the House -- but we persevere.

And, since this is just about a month after I took prompts, it's also the end of More Joy, er, Month.

mobile_alh asked for a visit with Guin and Jeffrey (whom I introduced to you in a ( Read more... )

A cold front is rattling at the windows. I imagine long ice-fingers tapping, tapping away at the concrete-block walls, slipping into crevices, slipping in like daggers....

Of course I also could be being a bit over-dramatic.

Two quick things:

1) On April 3rd of this year I posted about a book I was reading: the first of CS Harris's Sebastian St ( Read more... )

It is a dark Monday morning, full of clouds and portents, and it may well be a horrible Monday ahead. But we will think good thoughts!

And as part of those good thoughts, I offer this conclusion to the year's Halloween story, with a smile. Thanks for reading along with me.

We left off with And then it leapt for her throatOnward for the last time ( Read more... )

I send sympathies for those trapped in untimely snow. Here in the subtropics, chilly air has blown in, but that just means it's now proper tea-weather, poss. with accompanying muffins ( Read more... )

I feel as though I should pour you all a cup of tea and offer 'round the tea biscuits before posting this next installment, but... Imagine tea and biscuits, anyway, and the warm hum of an old radio, and the edge-of-chill wind of an English October.

And here we go with more of Guin and Jeffrey and their Hallows Eve adventure.

We left off with It ( Read more... )

At this particular moment I am exhausted, fighting either a cold or allergies, feeling forlorn and revoltingly self-pitying, and stumbling on the cranky side. So let's ignore that ( Read more... )

I've been listening to the new Kate Bush song "Wild Man," which doesn't have anything really to do with the very short serial story for Halloween I'd like to offer, but anyway.... Kate Bush ( Read more... )