I keep getting recruited by people interested in my "unique qualifications".

What if they're serious about that?    I do have some "unique qualifications", and I can spin a story about why some company might want them

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We spent three or four months pretending that I had a long time to live.  Doing things that only made sense if we had a future.  We moved into a new apartment, with three bedrooms --one for us, one for perfuming until it took off enough to need a storefront.  After that happened, The third bedroom would become my office.  We bought a long curly ( Read more... )

Zeus and Hera sat together on a couch of archaic design, its cushions being woolen bags stuffed with fragrant herbs, resting on a web of leather straps.

"You who have returned from dark Tartaros - speak to us now of Echidna," said Zeus.

Eirlys had opinions. "She's a horrible, amoral, self-centered psychopathic horror-loving demon."

"Is she planning to ( Read more... )

The dog was rather large.  Even, it was bigger than any three elephants, which made the second and third heads seem excessive.  Kaiju at first thought its black fur was full of vines or roots, but they turned out to be dozens and dozens of snakes.  It crouched in front of a vast arch in a black stone wall, and when it wagged its tail, the wind ( Read more... )

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Demi leapt lightly onto the end of the picnic table away from the salads and flatware.  She drummed her fingers on her plastic plate, for a bit of mock thunder.  "Welcome to the first Pegana Picnic of the summmer!  I hope you're hungry - there's  ever so much food.  I especially hope you've got a vast chasm in your belly that craves zucchini.  We' ( Read more... )

Bastet sat on the edge of Kaiju's gurney in Examination Room 21.  Dr. Venkssen did not seem pleased, and if Eirlys had been sitting there, he surely would have shooed the demigod off.   But as a mythomedical specialist, Venkssen must have had some inkling of Bastet's many mystical capabilities, which in his professional opinion almost certainly ( Read more... )

(( This is roughly what I experienced too, until the part where it's obviously fantasy.  Also, no tuna.

(( also I merged it with some previous text, because that's how I had intended it originally.
It was Eirlys' and Kaiju's five-month wedding anniversary.  They weren't exactly celebrating it in any particularly intense or formal way, but Eirlys was ( Read more... )

"Kai!" said Kaiju's mother.  "It worries me so much, what you are doing with your life and your soul.  This Hair-Louse girl, who isn't a real girl ... I think she is a demon.  I think she wants to eat your soul."

"Her name is Eirlys.  She's transgender, like me.  She is a demigod,
not a demon.  Her mother is the Angel of Cats.  Right here."  Kaiju
had ( Read more... )

"Hi Eirlys!  This is your friendly neighborhood web designer Kaiju  with a couple questions about what you’d like for the ARTA site,” when Eirlys answered her phone.

“Heh, you almost made it to “friendly neighborhood spider man” there, web-spinner!”

“And pretty much neighborhood,too.  The address on your check is like four blocks away.  I hope that ( Read more... )