Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

      Here's a magazine where one of my short stories appears. The story's called "Queen of the Mushrooms," and it's a fantasy romance kind of a thing between Lacewing, a shy young crow, and Bathetic, the Salamander Lord of Pandemonium. The magazine is called Journ-E , and it's 180 pages of just about everything a genre fan could want.      And I mean that. The magazine's divided into 5 sections—Adventure, Detectives, Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction—and each section's got stories, poems, and non-fiction related to that section's subject. And not just new stuff, either: the Detective section in this issue reprints Raymond Chandler's classic essay "The Simple Art of Murder" in which he lays out his ideas about how to write a proper mystery, and the Horror section has an article by Edgar Allan Poe in which he goes into detail about the process he followed when writing "The Raven."      I kind of have...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      When I started "Slipskin" fifteen weeks ago, I hadn't planned on it having so much Alice in Wonderland in it. But, hey, that's the fun of improv.      Monday, though, we'll check in to see what Jolene and Mrs. Teasdale have been getting up to lately. "Succor," our 127th storyline, starts then!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      So. Much. Banter!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      So now I'm thinking we oughtta do a story 'round here where Howlett takes over the world. I'd hafta draw him wearing a cape, though, and I don't think I'm quite up to that...

The Terebinth Story Archive      I don't think we've ever had an "adversarial rondeau" like this before. We're definitely on the cutting edge here at Terebinth !

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Never turn down a free dip in a pool of warm water, Howlett.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And then? As I was walking to work Monday morning, the whole outline for the next story mooshed together in my head. "Succor" will feature Mrs. Teasdale and Jolene and will start here October 2nd if all goes well.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Right now, I'm thinking I might take some time off when this story reaches its conclusion at the end of the month. I dunno, though...

The Terebinth Story Archive      I can't even remember the last time we had a ballade around here. Millie always classes the place up...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Sounds like he might be serious this time...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      That's telling 'em, guys!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      OK, let's just strike certain words from our vocabulary for the next little while, shall we?

The Terebinth Story Archive      Do moths have ichor inside them? 'Cause I always thought it was hemolymph...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Does this qualify as a cliffhanger? 'Cause I think it does...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I'm sure ev'rything'll be fine. But then I'm always sure ev'rything'll be fine.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Mmmm... Squash...

The Terebinth Story Archive      I just noticed that, for an unknown number of years now, I've had a non-functioning e-mail address on all these pages over on the main site . So I've switched it to one that works...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Let's hope that a tingling spine is a good sign! I mean, how couldn't it be?