The Muse Fusion has started! It’s over
HERE.
I promised to post a poll so you could vote on which story your links to the Muse Fusion will sponsor, and got distracted. So here it is.
Please vote! I’ll close the poll sometime tomorrow so I can start posting 100-word segments of the story you choose:
Poll story! It’s easy to sponsor the story-just link to the Muse Fusion (
http://torn-world.livejournal.com/116759.html) in your blog, your facebook, your twitter or other appropriate public internet space, and then stop back here to give me a link to your link. I reserve the right to count linkbacks I find out about in some other way, but I won’t be out looking for them. I’ll be getting ready for Worldcon and writing/drawing.
And probably visiting the hospice again. I have a friend who I’ve always really liked, but our schedules never meshed. Still, I always thought that someday…well, there won’t be a someday. She was very recently discovered to have stage four lung cancer, and I just heard about it this week.
I know nobody can do everything they want to do. There’s always more friends to see, more stories to write, more songs to sing, more of everything worth doing than there is time to do those things in. This lady has always been one of the most alive people I know-I believe she lived her life well and fully. But still, she should have many years left to be the wonderful, vital person she’s always been, instead of a just few more days or hours to be with her friends and family. The news hit me hard.
So, I forgot all about posting a poll, thinking instead about roads not taken, and remembering that you never know how short life will prove to be.