Actually probably more than that. Don't think we're high upon a ridge, either. And no one in this house is named Marie. But I'm totally in Memphis! I left home Saturday afternoon and then spent two days driving with a tiny break in the middle wherein I visited adnirem, and we both failed to sleep much. I need to figure out how to lure her to Boston so we ( Read more... )

In this week's interview, The Future Fire's editor talks about what he's looking for in a story, the ups and downs of running an online magazine, and what sorts of animal skulls he keeps around the house.

Also, I Do Two! is now available in paperback through Amazon. I think it will also be available through Barnes & Noble at some point.

No giant essay this time, just a few notes about things I've enjoyed in the last week.

Two of my Viable Paradise classmates have stories up online right at the moment. theferrett brings us a tale of sheer cosmic evil, with appropriately resonant laughter. "Home Despot" is very silly, and sometimes silliness is exactly what hits the spot.

"Tourists" is by ( Read more... )

Outer Alliance Spotlight #8 is up. This week we're celebrating the LBTQ themed anniversary issue of Crossed Genres with the editors, Bart Leib and K.T. Holt. Check it out ( Read more... )

"They said marriage is always between a man and women," Walsh mused. "I used to think that was true. I had those same premises, but those premises were false."That's a link to an article about how same sex marriage will have been legal in my current home state for 5 years on Sunday. It's really encouraging to me that this particular quote comes ( Read more... )

As I mentioned yesterday, we gleefully escorted two of our dear friends to City Hall on Monday so that they could apply for a marriage license. Said friends are residents of New York, where the law says that any marriage legally performed in another state will be recognized as valid there, too. Not as good as being able to get married right there ( Read more... )

We voted at 8:30, and didn't have any lines, though our neighbors reported longish lines at 7:00 when the polls opened. As we walked out, Moss marveled that ballots have only been secret since 1890. Of course I couldn't have voted back then even if I'd been alive, being a woman and all. I'm happy I got to walk my female body down to the polling ( Read more... )

Marriage: As you may have heard, California's supreme court recently said that same sex marriages were indeed marriages and should be legally recognized as such. Yay! But of course, now there will be a bunch of people who want to make them declared invalid by amending the state constitution with a new bill. Boo! Luckily we have a nice group of ( Read more... )