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I really just made up my mind to start this yesterday, so forgive the paucity of this week's offerings! This week, I'm mostly just sharing stories that I have already read and recommended (but not lately) and one new offering: "The Horrid Glory of Its Wings" by Elizabeth Bear.

Now, I have sung the praises of the Interfictions Annex long and loud ( Read more... )

Did you want to receive a holiday card from me? If so, and if you haven't commented yet, hie you to this post! (Also, if you wanted to send me a card, but don't have my address, ping me there as well.)

I'm sending cards out sometime soon, so don't delay.

Also, all of the auctions for the Interstitial Arts Foundation expire today! There are ( Read more... )

Now we come to the end: the end of my semester, and the end of the 2009 IAF Auction. I won't regale you with harrowing tales of the four books and ten articles I'm reading, along with the two papers I'm writing. Instead, I'll throw shiny things at you. As usual. Behold the final auctions! Behold beaded bookmark glory and breathtaking jumbled masks ( Read more... )

For your Black Friday safety and pleasure, I exhort you to stay at home! If you have the need to throw money at shiny things, please consider doing so at IAFauctions.com. Not only will you be bidding on remarkable, one-of-a-kind items, but you'll be donating to a fascinating cause: the transgressing of borders, the breaking of genres, and the ( Read more... )

I'm really impressed by the creativity being featured at IAFauctions.com! There's an alien doll by C. Jane Washburn that gives me the willies even as I'm cooing "awww...!" and an utterly sublime Chimera Fancies pendant based on "Remembrance is Something Like a House." There's an intoxicating hair-fall of indigo and trinkets and a couple of art- ( Read more... )

The auction is in full swing! I know I promised to post this round-up on Friday, but the best-laid plans of cats and women... a nine-hour shift at the Paycheck Factory ate my day. Here I am now, though, to enthuse with you about the gorgeous images and pendants and shiny things up on the auction block over at IAFauctions.com.

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Oh my! Y'all, this week's installment in the IAF Annex is exactly my sort of thing! It is brilliant and evocative and messed up and yes. Seriously, I could plagiarize myself from the IAF blog post and tell you "[t]his evocative interfiction prompts us to reflect on monsters and the liminality of experience," but I really just want to tell you "GO ( Read more... )

The IAF Annex has been continuing apace these past couple weeks, bringing us further examples of engrossing fiction that denies categorization, instead sprawling web-like across our concepts of narrative and genre.

In "Stonefield," Mark Rich has developed an unsettling piece: a ghost story, perhaps, of time and place… or maybe a rumination on a ( Read more... )

Kelly Barnhill was up last week in the Interfictions Annex, ensnaring readers in a shining net of the natural world and lifelong relationships: her offering is both prose and poetry, true stories and ineffable fancies, about one's relationship with the sacred and the profane.

Read her story, "Four Very True Tales," and tell me: which one speaks ( Read more... )