Flu
Ugh! I think I might have caught it at the funeral. I still haven’t got the Christmas cards in the post, but I’ve just got to go to bed.
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More delays
A neighbour died. So I spent half the morning down at the chapel of rest, and half the afternoon at the funeral. I don’t regret spending my time that way in the least, since I was some use to the widow, but it means that I’m just starting the stuff I had planned to do on Friday.
Stink!
It rained hard, and the cats’ toilet on the balcony got soaked. So they peed in the kitchen, right in the corner. Which did not smell good, obviously. And then my husband had to go and mend the telescope this morning, so I was on my own with it. Simply shoving a mop into the offending corner didn’t do much good, so I dragged the table out of the way,…
Cheek!
Someone’s started a website about Puntagorda, for tourists. Great idea. He’s publicising it by putting photos on google maps. Great idea. He’s using one of MY photos, served from MY website (so I pay for the bandwidth) and he hasn’t given a picture credit, so most people would get the impression that it’s his photo. Not so great. Cheeky sod. So I added a little text at the bottom of…
A sale!
I was getting as thirsty as the ancient mariner for some writing success. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,We could nor laugh nor wail ;Through utter drought all dumb we stood !I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,And cried, A sale! a sale! I sold my story “Screamcatcher” to “Untied Shoelaces of the Mind”, and I’ll be in the debut issue some time next month. So that’s me…
30,000 readers coming my way.
Robert M Blevins, one of the editors of Escape Velocity magazine, has put my story “Scream Quietly” up on his column at Newsvine, which gets about 30,000 visitors a month. You can read the story, leave comments, and vote on it (please!) http://adventurebooks.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/01/3449936-from-the-files-of-escape-velocity-scream-quietly-by-sheila-crosby-part-1-of-2-