... story/fantasy) "Come-From-Aways", On Spec #76 (print & PDF, short story/science fiction) "Stilts and Straw", Flashing Swords #12 (print, short story/fantasy) "Sphinx!", Ages of Wonder , DAW ... "The Spirit of Wine" (short story/fantasy) In the hands of my writer's group: 1 "Stilts and Sorcery" (short story/fantasy) Firsts nominated for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best ...
...the Ocean- leaving a sizzling after math of underwater fireflies. There was no night to compare to when the Indians came in on ships and brought cleansing packs- enemas to clean us out and certain toys like stilts to walk around on and paint, canvases, paint brushes etc. Every morning we would go running with the local horses. On the sand we would run for miles- all the way around the island. I...
... you with restraint and the best lyrics the UK Goth scene has actually witnessed". Mercer also adds that Rome Burns "are so head and shoulders above the rest I think they've also been designing stilts", praise indeed! The Men That Will Not be Blamed for Nothing are a steampunk band from London, featuring Andy Heintz from Creaming Jesus and Giant Paw. Their name is a reference to the chalked ...
...people were gathered in the streets. Gentlemen on pretty white horses, parades of visitors, and fishermen from the coast caused chaos. Beautiful women with a rainbow of parasols watched as clowns on stilts chased delighted children through the crowd. I have no intentions of getting all of us together to write this scene, especially with the holidays and exams and everything going on. However, ...
...(Spring), about a linguisticsprofessor in Newfoundland who risks her career when she decides that a strange shipwrecked man is really the [12th Century] Welsh Prince Madoc. In other news...completed a draft of "Stilts and Sorcery" yesterday (fun!) It's now off to the First Reader and the Stopwatch Gang for critique. Can't wait to see what the writing group makes of this one. :) And does anyone...
Did you know scientists have attachedstilts to ants' legs, in order to prove that ants are able to count their steps? [They overshot their nests in proportion to the length of the stilts] Did you know there's a giant colony of fire ants that now covers pretty ... never again be able to hear the Duran Duran track "Girls on Film" without hearing the line "Ants on Stilts."
... Mrs. Burlington, the head honcho, at her mansion in the Delta. She let them know that one of the vampires from the train had been... changed. He was holed up in a series of ramshackle buildings on stilts out in the delta. The sleeper population was calling it a cult, and the place was surrounded by cops and reporters. The party, along with one vampire sent along to keep an eye on things, Petar, ...
Third in a possibly infinite list of music wot I liked this year:
"Love Is A Wave," CrystalStilts: I don’t care what it’s derivative of, I don’t care what you think, I loved this and... it would have been this one. But ultimately they were a bit shit at being a band, so the Crystal Stilts did it instead.
THE TRANSACTIONAL DHARMA OF ROJ, Roj : you really need the CD of this, not least because...
... I would love to read a fluffy and/or nostalgicbit about young, colonial America and Canada playing some traditional games. Leapfrog, or shooting marbles, or hoops, or walking on homemade stilts, whatever. Bonus if they play a traditional Native game (bewildering England perhaps?)! Summary: England doing paperwork means little America and Canada have time to play games he doesn't like. They ...
... "gargantuan misapprehensions". Misapprehensions such as the fact that I have not moved nor any of the libraries I currently work at and that "as far as I'm aware none of the libraries have jumped onto stilts and crossed over into other towns". Instead I now work at more places, without any consultation and leaving me out of pocket. So yes, terse email and the reply that I received wasn't exactly ...