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The Terebinth Story Archive      Once again, Mrs. Pell classes the joint up with a ballade. And it's only been, like, eight pages since her last one !

And now?       Albatrossed is finally out!      This is something I originally wrote in 2017. The chant royal at the heart of the collection came first in April of that year, then I decided to expand it by writing sonnets that told what happened before and after the chant royal: it's much more a short story than it is a poetry collection, I have to admit.      To get those sonnets written, I enrolled in that summer's "Write Like You're Alive" challenge, something the folks at Zoetic Press used to do. During the month of August, participants had to create something artistic every day, and I determined that I my daily output would be one of these sonnets. I distinctly remember working on several of the pieces while sitting in the Denver airport waiting for flights to and from Baltimore for that year's Bronycon, the My Little Pony convention they used to hold there. And on September 1st, I had 31 sonnet...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      If you're interested in another story by me, let me direct your attention to " Any Portal in a Storm ," currently available to read on the Zooscape website . Magic and science combine!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Magical architecture. Why did it have to be magical architecture?

As readers might recall:      I'm an aficionado of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon series. I mean, yes, I enjoyed the original My Little Pony show from the 1980s and still have several VHS tapes of episodes I recorded from the TV back in those days, but Lauren Faust's reimagined reboot was the thing that got me writing fanfiction for the first time in my life. Any interested parties can peruse that fanfiction under two different pseudonyms: AugieDog , and Baal Bunny .      The story I'm talking about here, however, is a piece of original fiction, but anyone familiar with the MLP setting will quite clearly see the inspiration I took from it. It's called " Any Portal in a Storm ," and it's just been posted as part of the 29th issue of the online magazine Zooscape . I've sold them a couple other stories over the years, one called " 'Twas Brillig " about certain characters in the Oz books discovering that they...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      That's what this whole series is about: neighborhood improvement.