and today...

Is Veteran's Day. The thanks of a nation is yours, and the thanks of this one individual as well. We know the difference between wars we abhor, and troops we support.

For my neice and her new husband. My dad and my former uncle-by-marriage. For ginmar and Jeff, all those on LJ who serve and then come home and especially all those who served and, damn it, didn't come home...

May there come a day when we can say "thank you for your time and dedication and toil...and we no longer need to take you away from your homes."

where the head is...

First lines from works in progress.


"Breathe. Breathe, damn you!"
-- "Inferno" (short story)

“Once, we were nomads.”
-- "Waterwitch" (short story)

Wren Valere had spent hours, more than once, waiting in a cramped, close situation, anticipating the perfect moment to move on a job.
-- Retrievers #4 (title pending inspiration)

After endless weeks of being at the mercy of tide and wind, Manon knew that she would never love the sea.
-- THE GREENING (aka The New Project)


there are a few other things, but these are what are on the front burner...

the writing life: getting out the scalpels and testing them on my own flesh...

Long-awaited revision letter has arrived.


Bye, all. See ya at the other end of the tunnel.