( Lawn Guy )

I love A2O3 because (among a horde of other excellent reasons) it makes finding, marking, and sharing thing easy. (My next hope is for a time-limited search, so we [i.e., My Lady and me] can find Anything Entered In March 2009, or whenever.) And because I can just say Lookie! Read this!


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You know how you look at things and just wish they could just the hell be solved? Look at people and wish, with all your heart, that without changing who they are, they could be healed and made whole? Look at a whole scad of gorgeous people and just want to watch them in a huge writhing pile of ecstasy ( Read more... )

For those not yet in the know:

One of the upshots of Recent Events was the determination to found scholarships for Fen of Color[FoC] to attend WisCon. A community named fight_derailing was formed, for the purpose of "fight[ing] the derailing of anti-racism conversations." One of its posts reads, in part: "Are you a fan of color who wants to go to Wiscon, but ( Read more... )

Recommended by chrysothemis, I give you a short story:

Until Forgiveness Comes
By K. Tempest Bradford
17 November 2008

a radio report on an annual commemoration of a bombing. I highly recommend it.

Not shiny, but velvet.

From the Los Angeles Times:
[Lt. Jack] Reavley, who was drafted in World War II and remained in the Army Reserve, was called back to service during the Korean War. He became [Army Sgt. Bob] Claunch's commanding officer at Armed Forces Radio in Munich, Germany [in 1951 ( Read more... )

Cesperanza / Speranza / Francesca has always written with this background knowing of queerness; how it exists as community, the adjustments and compromises that one makes, and those one refuses to make. How an individual exists in isolation, and how he exists in a shadowed society.

Her newest work, Friendly, takes this background and makes it ( Read more... )

sardonicsmiley is, as I have said before, a frightening and excellent author. So I will tell you:

There is no Sex. In fact, there is no Romance.
Rodney - goes. Permanently.
John abandons Atlantis.
There is Background of Families.

And you absolutely must read the story right away!!!

It is called The Other Side of Grace, and you will need a hanky or tissue ( Read more... )

sardonicsmiley is an author of skill, depth, and terror, like unto Holly Lisle, and needing to be taken with the same kind of caution ( Read more... )

Parhelion's site entitled Germination Records contains an extended bounty of perfectly-executed narrative voice, whether that of Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, or even on occasion Saul Panzer or Lily Rowan. She weaves everything from a brief wait on an encounter with mortality to a long, involved undercover war story. The quiet desperation and longing ( Read more... )