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Ahhh, it's good to be home again. I love my in-laws, and Minnesota is gorgeous, but I also love a little time alone once in a while. There's not really any of that when five siblings, two parents, eight cousins, one grandma, and eight aunts/uncles are all crammed into one three-room cabin and two-room bunkhouse. Record high temperatures don't really encourage much vigorous outdoor bonding during the sunny parts of the day, either, though I'm happy to say I returned home a little browner than I left, including one 5"x2" rectangular strip across my thigh that looks comically like I'm wearing half of a garter just below my shorts. No idea how that came to be, but it provided a source of amusement for one sister-in-law, who managed to sunburn what look like Playboy bunny ears on her back between her shoulder blades. My youngest bro-in-law, who's 13, ended up with some sort of infected chafing on the inside of his thigh, so he spent the second half of the week lying on the couch, complaining melodramatically about the "rare disease" that had left him "disabled" while describing the pus oozing from and below his balls in far more detail than anybody wanted to hear. Also conversed with my mother-in-law while she was naked for the first time; guess I'm definitely part of the family now. *scratches head* Anyway, it was fun, I laughed a lot, and now I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of my own home.
Question: what sort of person would be susceptible to possession by a memory-eating demon?
Yes, that's right--I'm finally thinking about Mnemosyne and the Mystery of the Mnemophage again (and my, doesn't that sound like Scooby-Doo or the Boxcar Children). I even have a sort of rough outline, though the plot part is still more than a little hazy, as evidenced by the fact that I don't actually know who the mnemophage is yet. I do have other things I have to do before the end of summer vacation (read 1000 pages of nonfiction about my subject area for school, a project for/withlizlambdin that involves writing a lot of dactylic hexameter among other things, read the books I have to teach in AP Lit this year, that sort of thing), but I'm aiming to post something memory-related a couple of times a week.
In other news: So this came out while I was gone. My story Learning to See is in it, along with four other fantastic fairy tales. You should go read this now, if you haven't already. There is much of delightfulness within.
Question: what sort of person would be susceptible to possession by a memory-eating demon?
Yes, that's right--I'm finally thinking about Mnemosyne and the Mystery of the Mnemophage again (and my, doesn't that sound like Scooby-Doo or the Boxcar Children). I even have a sort of rough outline, though the plot part is still more than a little hazy, as evidenced by the fact that I don't actually know who the mnemophage is yet. I do have other things I have to do before the end of summer vacation (read 1000 pages of nonfiction about my subject area for school, a project for/withlizlambdin that involves writing a lot of dactylic hexameter among other things, read the books I have to teach in AP Lit this year, that sort of thing), but I'm aiming to post something memory-related a couple of times a week.
In other news: So this came out while I was gone. My story Learning to See is in it, along with four other fantastic fairy tales. You should go read this now, if you haven't already. There is much of delightfulness within.