Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Could we maybe be getting to the point? Tune in next week!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      So far, this story seems nearly as long as the average medical internship, so I think maybe we're all doctors now!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Huh. Not metaphor, then, I guess. Or something...

The Terebinth Story Archive      If it's Esther, it must be a triolet...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Good thing Doc has Malvolio there to do the interpretive dance portion of his dissertation...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Ah, metaphor...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And tricky's what we're all about here at Daily Grind !

The Terebinth Story Archive      I've often said that my goal in life is to become the perfect assitant. The hardest part, though, is finding anyone who'll let me help them after they get a look at what I can do!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Well, as long as we're following the recommended process, I'm sure everything'll be fine.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      'Cause I guess if you're gonna revise history, it's prob'bly best to only do it slightly...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      'Cause I guess if you're gonna do apologies, you might as well do multiple ones...

The Terebinth Story Archive      The rules of storytelling are very strict...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Because there hasn't been nearly enough talking in this story so far, my promise to all readers is: more talking next week!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Wait a minute. How did we get to the halfway point in this story already? Where am I? What month is this?

This won't be:      Available for a couple months yet, but I've got another short story schedule to appear in an upcoming magazine.      The magazine is Space & Time #146, and since it'll be their Spring/Summer issue, I wouldn't expect to see it while the sleet and snow are still falling here and there around the northern hemisphere. Maybe closer to June or something?      These are the same folks who published a sonnet of mine in their issue #145 late last year. I actually sent them the short story at the same time as the sonnet, thinking I'd have a better chance of getting in if I covered as many bases as I could manage. The editor ended up liking them both, so she decided to space them out a bit, one per issue. Wouldn't wanna overwhelm anyone, after all...      The story's called "The Ring of Destiny," and it's all about the vital importance of being genre savvy . It's...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Gremlin, gazebo: it's really half of one, six dozen of the other...

The Terebinth Story Archive      So many characters locked in their little boxes... But that rhyme scheme thing? Yeah, Lamont's really got no one to blame but himself for that.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Whoosh! After all that leaping yesterday, I'm exhausted! Still, it's nice to know that Malvolio is a Dot Warner fan, I guess...