Cool and sunny today. Southern New England lists towards impending autumn.
Yesterday, we only managed to make it through Chapter 4 of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. It's a much longer chapter than I remembered. But, today, we forge boldly ahead, and make much better progress. If only I'd gotten much more sleep last night.
We'll probably still be reading through the CEM when
readingthedark, whose coming tonight for a visit, arrives.
Oh, and there was a veritable mountain of neglected email – some of it important – that I dealt with yesterday.
But I fear I have no particular insights or witticisms to offer today. I'm not awake, and I have to wake up fast, and hit the pages running. Tomorrow, kittens.
Just before sleep, Spooky read me Manly Wade Wellman's "Ever the Faith Endures," a very effective story of old darkness. It's a story that a lot of modern writers attempting to write weird fiction could learn from. It speaks softly, powerfully, makes clear an inescapable situation, and wisely eschews resolution. Oh, and Spooky found this, a trailer for a short film, "Up Under the Roof," based on one of Wellman's short stories.
Stet,
Aunt Beast
Yesterday, we only managed to make it through Chapter 4 of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. It's a much longer chapter than I remembered. But, today, we forge boldly ahead, and make much better progress. If only I'd gotten much more sleep last night.
We'll probably still be reading through the CEM when
readingthedark, whose coming tonight for a visit, arrives. Oh, and there was a veritable mountain of neglected email – some of it important – that I dealt with yesterday.
But I fear I have no particular insights or witticisms to offer today. I'm not awake, and I have to wake up fast, and hit the pages running. Tomorrow, kittens.
Just before sleep, Spooky read me Manly Wade Wellman's "Ever the Faith Endures," a very effective story of old darkness. It's a story that a lot of modern writers attempting to write weird fiction could learn from. It speaks softly, powerfully, makes clear an inescapable situation, and wisely eschews resolution. Oh, and Spooky found this, a trailer for a short film, "Up Under the Roof," based on one of Wellman's short stories.
Stet,
Aunt Beast
- Current Location:Avernus Rupes
- Current Mood:
groggulous - Current Music:Placebo, "Hardly Wait"
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- 3 Dec 2022, 22:31Gun control is being able to hit your target. Nothing less; nothing more.
- 30 Nov 2022, 22:26Stick around; we need you.
- 11 Nov 2022, 06:15Thanks for keeping the fires burning.
Maybe some of my old friends list will crawl back onto the night's Plutonian shores to make their eldritch needs felt.
AND FU LJ FOR TRYING TO AUTOCORRECT… - 4 Nov 2022, 18:54Am I to assume you mean the presidential election. If so, yes. It will ho badly.
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Aunt Beast
Heh.
That sounds like a beast toward apocalypse.
(Say hi to Geoffrey for me.)