"And as dreams of snow and ice flowed over me, I wondered how differently it might all have gone if taking out monsters did come with a how-to manual."
-Kathy Tierney, Blood Oranges

Oh Quinn. You just would have fucked up in different, yet equally disastrous and inventive ways.

night night
- 12th

Based on today's post by greygirlbeast , I think I will assemble a "Bucket of Endings". So...I sort of need some help with this. I've come up with a few, but more minds is more better.
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( Bucket of Endings, first handful )

So, I read "The Z Word" and had something of an mixed impression of it. Initially, I would have said it's probably one of the finer non-erotica stories to come out of the Sirenia Digest, but by the conclusion, I found myself unsatisfied and wanting more.* This is not to suggest that the story is necessarily a failure, but that it builds a promise ( Read more... )

Stolen from sovay (hattip watermelontail), who (unsurprisingly) expresses things better than I can. Links changed up a bit, also:

As some of you will have already read, Caitlín R. Kiernan has been diagnosed with PNES (psychogenic non-epileptic seizures)1. She is a professional freelance writer. The impact on her ability to work has been considerable, and therefore ( Read more... )