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A New Story for the Year's End

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I've just discovered:      That a magazine that was supposed to come out in October with one of my stories in it actually did in fact come out!      Since 2023, I've had a story in every issue of the twice-yearly anthology Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature . Several of the stories started life as pieces of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic fanfiction, but I made a lot of alterations. All the characters who were unicorns in the original Pony versions, for instance, become cats in my rewrites, all the "earth ponies" become dogs, and all the pegasi become crows, hawks or eagles.      In the process of conversion, though, the dogs, cats, and birds began taking on lives of their own, as it were. And by the time I was planning the 4th story in the sequence, I realized that it wouldn't work as a Pony story at all. It's called "Jinx," and it's a whole new story featuring characters who are but ...
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Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 29

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Well, wasn't it nice of the pastor to stop by for spell? Even if the spell was apparently necromantic in nature...
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Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 28

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      The last week of the year! And yet? Our story continues!
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Terebinth, Page 1,862: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      It's always nice when everyone takes part in the conversation.
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Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 27

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Have I mentioned my two recent poems here? The longest of them is " Perilous Stare & Friendship Fair ," and the other, a bit shorter but still pretty long, is called " What Water Says ."
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Some Seasonal Music

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The three tunes here :      Didn't form a "set" on the recent Solstice, Christmas, Etc. episode of my weekly radio program. I did play all of them, yes, but it wasn't till afterwards that it occurred to me how well they'd fit together. So here they are.      We start with the British musicians Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden playing guitars and fiddles and singing their way through "I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In" backed up by the snappiest little brass band I've heard in a long time. The second tune is from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by way of my favorite trumpeter/composer/arranger of the Big Band era, Charlie Shavers. This isn't Shavers' group performing it here, though, 'cause Don Byron's Sextet puts so much more bounce into it: "The Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies," Shavers called it. And the set wraps up with Bela Fleck on the banjo with his band the Flecktones and the Tuvan ensemble called Alash merrily mashin...
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Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 26

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Christmas Eve, as usual around here, means singing and playing at 3 masses and a carol service. Christmas Day, though, I get off, so hopefully I don't have to do too much talking.
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