Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Is this turning into Paradise Lost around here or something? I mean, yeesh!      Still, it'll be the new year when we next we meet, so enjoy making the transition!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Ah, the mechanics of multiple narrators... It's all rather confusing, really.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      If Tiny Tim was s'pposed to pop out and say, "Cyrios bless us, every one!" then it looks like he's running a little late...      But I will say that a computer with a properly functioning CPU fan makes more noise than I recall, though it's nice to have all the pieces of the vast Daily Grind machine back up and whirring. As for me, I should be done singing by the time you read this: just three Christmas Eve masses for me this year as well as our regular carol service with the trumpets before the 10PM mass. So I've got Christmas Day off!

The Terebinth Story Archive      I guess this is Christmas-y? Kind of?

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      You'd better hurry up a little, Mrs. Teasdale: there's only three weeks left in the storyline!

He saunters, not a hint of awkwardness About his movements, flowing sweet as fire. Dolores, trying not to stare, selects A protein bar, a heated argument Among her schoolmates raising ruffled fur And growls. The guy's a feline, after all. The student body's ninety-eight percent canine. The whole school's aware. He hears them, Casey does, their yips and all Alive with bitter scents of awkwardness. Remaining smooth, he doesn't look, the fur Beneath his shirt on edge, a tickling fire He knows. It follows matching arguments From other schools his science course selects. Universities should be more universal. "Should" is the key word. In class, Dolores carefully selects A seat in back of Casey, watching all The rest digress, off-topic arguments Concerning species, full of awkwardness. The room of canines almost seems on fire With ears and whiskers folded close to fur. Students of science should be— There's that "should" again. Stupid subjunc...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I don't know if I'd call what the Lady Psychopomp has on her face a snout, per se, but that might just be me...