Down the way, the road's divided...

[greygirlbeast]

An apology regarding yesterday's entry. There were many, many thoughtful comments, and usually I am very good about replying to almost all comments. I am usually very glad for comments. But something went awry yesterday. I don't quite know what. I just sort of feel like I slipped off the face of the world for a bit there. I do very much appreciate

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[fremen_dancer]

I had the misfortune of living in Orlando for about a year, and despised it. The place no longer has any kind of a soul.

[mevennen]

I don't think I do, but mine is:

liz(at)arkady(dot)org

if you are interested. I was very interested by the comments made, by the way.

[greygirlbeast]

Got it.

if you are interested. I was very interested by the comments made, by the way.

Thank you. I am interested. Just scatter-brained of late.

[sclerotic_rings]

I have a cousin who lives in Orlando, and I only discovered this as I was packing up everything and moving from Tallahassee. Not only is he from my father's side of the family, which still hasn't forgiven me for abandoning Catholicism, but he apparently makes his money from real estate deals of exactly that sort. Suffice to say, the Orlando you knew is gone, and I'm related to someone who made it that way. Bugger.

[frankiemouse]

total side point, but i used to have that book in you icon when i was a kid. i remember liking it. i don't remember how accurate it was, but i did like it. i should check about and see if i can find it.

[greygirlbeast]

total side point, but i used to have that book in you icon when i was a kid. i remember liking it. i don't remember how accurate it was, but i did like it. i should check about and see if i can find it.

It's a favourite book from my childhood - Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles by Jane Werner Watson (1960; A Giant Golden Book, Golden Press, NY), illustrated by the legendary Rudolph F. Zallinger who did the famous murals for the Yale Peabody Museum. I still have my copy.

[frankiemouse]

i hope i can find mine. if not i'll have to try to hunt down a copy. thanks for the info.

[nykolus]

OT: 'skin game' was deliciously nasty & hot. 'a season of broken dolls' and 'excerpt from memoirs of a martian demirep' from TftWP both were both disturbing and exquisite.

i've read all your novels, but nothing thrills me more than your short/long storied future-noir.

thank you.

[greygirlbeast]

i've read all your novels, but nothing thrills me more than your short/long storied future-noir.

Cool. You're welcome.

[sovay]

I did 1,511 more words on "In View of Nothing." And I do not know if this story is going to work. I cannot seem to get it right. It's like I'm writing some dim shade of the story this ought to be.

I have rarely been able to translate dreams exactly into stories; "In the Praying Windows" is the closest I've ever written, actually, and half of that is you. There are always so many extra dimensions in the dreams that don't make sense to anyone else on the page.

My first stepfather's parents (my step grandparents, I suppose) lived there back in the '70s, and I remember Orlando as a drowzy sort of nowhere in particular place, all blue crystal springs and citrus groves. I had no idea that it had become such a wasteland of consumerism and superhighways, megachurches and exurbs and McMansions.

I don't know about the megachurches and McMansions, but I do remember that when I was last in Orlando-I was in elementary school-it was dead impossible to find a bookstore anywhere near Disney World or the Epcot Center, which struck me as