All my violence, raging tears upon the sheets...
Yesterday I did 1,796 words. I think I finished about 6:15 p.m. Exhausted. Too tired to walk. Too tired to take a bath. I was able to chew, fortunately. Chewing seems almost autonomic
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I am ever surprised at how few comments I get regarding Sirenia Digest.
In my case, this is just because I don't have the time to read SD immediately after receiving it. Actually, I haven't finished reading SD 12 yet. And when I do finish an issue, a comment seem to be... I don't know, out of place maybe. But if it's better late than never with you...
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Spooky thinks the same, that there's a story. I'm a little leary. We'll see.
And the worry is that, this isn't "reality" but rather the dream.
How would I ever know?
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I wish I had more time to read it, but Soldier just left the poker game. I love the bit about hurricanes as demons.
One good thing about living in Tampa is that the hurricanes always skirt us, but almost never HIT us. The last direct hit was in the '30s. *knocks on wood*
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She wanted you to know it was her.
Probably not for the sex, or the politics, but maybe for the conversation, maybe because she couldn't avoid it, maybe because there was something left in her that you left that she couldn't let go. Her superiors, should they find out, would likely be furious.
Here's to compromising the other by compromising yourself.
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I've considered that.
Probably not for the sex, or the politics, but maybe for the conversation, maybe because she couldn't avoid it, maybe because there was something left in her that you left that she couldn't let go. Her superiors, should they find out, would likely be furious.
And maybe you're the one writing these dreams, coding my life...
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When I wrote this, I meant to imply that she owed you somehow; a bit of truth to offset all the lies, etc. By way of additional spookiness, I just noticed that iTunes just started playing Bauhaus' "The Spy in the Cab".
And maybe you're the one writing these dreams, coding my life...
I can't tell if this a joke, a compliment I should blush to receive, or a poisonous insult. Dream interpretation ain't my schtick (my coats are pretty much monochromatic: black or deep blues). But the suggestion made sense, had something...I dunno..apt (if not literally true) in it.
Seriously, if I'm coding your dreams, there's something way way more jacked up with this universe than either of us had feared.
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I work on the assumption, as a universal constant, that it's all way more jacked up than I'm capable of fearing...
By way of additional spookiness, I just noticed that iTunes just started playing Bauhaus' "The Spy in the Cab".
Oh. Thank you ever so much. Maybe I just won't go to bed tonight.
A twenty-four hour unblinking watch
Installed to pry
Installed to cop
The spy in the cab
I can't tell if this a joke, a compliment I should blush to receive, or a poisonous insult.
Maybe all three.
You think the coders would tell me they were coders? You think they'd even know?
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In some ways, I think Silk and Murder of Angels automatically have an easier time doing what Lovecraft was trying to do than Threshold and its followups. The moment any story is compared with or overtly references HPL's work, you've got the whoooooole kit n' kaboodle of Cthulhu Mythos fiction lurking in the background, from the laudable to the laughable. I don't remember any (?) Cthulhoid name-dropping in Silk or MoA, but I sure remember the bridge-crossing scenes in the latter, and the creatures outside the van in the former -- along with plenty other scenes of "cosmic" horror.
Speaking of Silk, will there ever be a re-release? My copy, along with most copies I've seen in the used stores, is falling apart. It would be nice to have an edition as nice as the TPB of MoA...
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Speaking of Silk, will there ever be a re-release? My copy, along with most copies I've seen in the used stores, is falling apart. It would be nice to have an edition as nice as the TPB of MoA...
I can't say. Somedays, I hope there will be. Other days, it feels like something best left behind me. Though, MoA feels odd without it.
Wasn't Mother Hydra mentioned in MoA? Maybe not. I know the ghouls were, but hey, those might have been any ghouls.
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Far be it from me to tell you your business, but I hope there will be one day. Back when it first came out, I took a quick look at it in the store, given your Gaiman connection and that I'd heard a bit of word of mouth... and put it down after reading the back copy and cover art, thinking "drugs, alternate Xianity, and ferchristsakes dreamcatchers. What is this, a plotless New Age goth thingie? Doesn't sound like there's any there there." Needless to say, I changed my mind, and I think it's a meaningful part of your work as a whole. Perhaps with new art and back copy it might sell better than the first time around. Just one reader's opinion...
As to refs in MoA, perhaps there were, but they don't stand out in my memory. Guess I'll find out when I reread it.
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Thing is, as best my agent and I were ever able to determine, Silk probably sold better than any of my novels so far.
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