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The Daily Grind Table of Contents Maybe our two plot lines will actually start coming together now? Maybe?
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Terebinth, Page 1,823: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive Oh, c'mon, Lamont: you're trying to tell me that "fraught" doesn't rhyme with "pot"? Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Of a Feather, Pg 54
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Everything always comes down to etiquette around here, doesn't it?
Of a Feather, Pg 53
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Yeah, if you're looking for "ordinary," Captain, I think you're in the wrong place.
A Forthcoming Novel
Now that we've: Signed the contracts, I guess it's official. For nearly 25 years now, I've been writing stories about Cluny the Sorceress Squirrel and her assorted friends and foes. For an idea of how long that's been in internet time, you can read the first of her stories, "Familiars," for free if you can reach this old Livejournal page . Otherwise, you can try tracking down a copy of the 2001 edition of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology —that was vol. 19, or XIX since they used Roman numerals most of the time. Or you can pick up The Ursa Major Anthology from Fur Planet Books. The story got reprinted there when it won the Ursa Major award for best anthropomorphic short story of 2001. After that, I had more stories about Cluny in volumes 23 through 32 of Sword & Sorceress , then got one more into the final volume, #34, in 2019. There's also one more story, a direct se...
Of a Feather, Pg 52
The Daily Grind Table of Contents 'Cause I think we can all agree that it's not a party till Malvolio shows up.
Terebinth, Page 1,822: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive I find myself wondering about that "hardly" at the end there...
Of a Feather, Pg 51
The Daily Grind Table of Contents I'm stealing all these Quillinese words from various southern and eastern Pacific languages, so here's hoping it makes some sort of sense.
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The Daily Grind Table of Contents That cushion prob'bly pinched him 'cause he's not wearing green. I mean, it is St. Patrick's Day...
Terebinth, Page 1,821: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive I usually look at limericks as anapestic poems. But if Lamont wants to do one with amphibrachs, I'm not gonna complain. Especially when he's already in a bad mood...
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The Daily Grind Table of Contents Apparently, birds don't like cheese. Or at least, this bird here doesn't like cheese...
Of a Feather, Pg 47
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Yeesh! How many secret masters of the universe're we gonna have in this comic?
Of a Feather, Pg 46
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Hmmm... Sounds like there might be some recognition there...
Terebinth, Page 1,820: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive That picture of Miss Annekke in the top panel was the last thing I drew with the Rapidograph pen I've been using to draw these comics for a couple decades now. While filling in her shoes, the nib suddenly snapped and bent into a 45 degree angle. Fortunately, ink didn't come blorching out everywhere, and I've got three extra pens standing by. But apparently entropy is out there, so let's all watch out steps. Also? I think I may have used every letter of the alphabet in this week's poem!
Of a Feather, Pg 45
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Ever since I switched from doing these stories as comics to doing them as illustrated novellas almost five years ago, they've all gone 45 pages. This one, though, will be stretching possibly to 75 pages. Just to shake things up, I guess...
Two Bits of Poetry-Related News
First is an award I'm preliminarily nominated for, and second is an online poetry reading I'm participating in. Back in September, I sold a poem called " One Last Pie in the Face " to the folks at the Silver Blade webzine. Now, it's apparently been nominated to the preliminary ballot for this year's Rhysling Award, given out by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. It's in the "long poem" category, so it's near the bottom of the list on their webpage. It also still has to make it through the panel of jurors to get onto the final ballot. So more bulletins as events warrant. Something that's more likely to happen, however, is coming up on April 13th. I've been invited to take part in the Speculative Sunday poetry reading series . The organizer asked me to have 16 to 18 minutes of poetry ready to read during the course of the hour-long Zoom session, and tickets are free, so well ...
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The Daily Grind Table of Contents All this smoke and Ash Wednesday? How appropriate!
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The Daily Grind Table of Contents I spent a fair amount of time over the weekend looking back through the previous twenty years of the comic to see if I ever gave the currency these talking animals folks use a name. I couldn't find any indication that I did, though, so here we are with a fifty-dollar bill being brandished instead of, say, a fifty-platron bill or something like that. Oh, well...
Terebinth, Page 1,819: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive Miss Annekke's demonstrated her hunting prowess in the comic before, usually when she's grabbing Esther, as a matter of fact...