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This Update is Scattered
Okay, Lord of the Black Mountain is going to be slightly stalled due to doomscrolling due to a) the government shut down b) everything related to the shut down c) horrifying levels of second hand embarrassment. Doomscrolling is generally a bad idea! However I could not look away as I kind of depend on services…
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Like to Charge, Reblog to Cast
This was inspired by the “your body my choice” meme from 2024. In nearly twenty years of marriage, Ann had never been the big spoon. She also had never had morning wood. (Her nose had never been buried in the nape of a woman with dark brown hair who was her mirror image.) So of…
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Book Review: Constituent Service by John Scalzi
John Scalzi has a talent for understated humor, and a gift for putting characters into capital-S Situations. In this case Ashley, Our Protagonist has landed a job as a community liaison for a human-minority district in an unnamed city. (District Three is inhabited mostly by sophonts from other worlds.) Her job is solve minor problems,…
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The Plow and Mule Story (As Vaguely Remembered by Someone Who Got Yelled at For Not Thinking It Was Funny.)
So, apparently there was a situation with a mule, a plow and my Uncle Bo when he was a kid. This situation that transpired was my uncle being unable to plow in a straight line. This was then followed by further complications that resulted in my paternal grandfather shouting, “that mule is worth more than…
