When Will Summer Be Over?

[lydamorehouse]

I'm sorry I'm not up on my blogging, but Mason is home and I've had a lot of little things what need doing around the house. The only breaking news is that my short story "The VanBulyen Effect" (known to most as "the couch story") is finally going to press over at TOTU (Tales of the Unanticipated,) with a publication date of late October. Whoot! This story is... well, really old. It's a time travel story inspired by Entertainment Weekly's coverage of "Michael Collins." They ran a picture of the real Easter Uprising (1916, Ireland,) and both Shawn and I secretly lusted over a couch that was part of a barricade of rubbish that the British had built. When I confessed to Shawn that I loved the couch, she and I started talking about how we'd use time travel to get cool furniture.

Previously, this story held the distinction of being the most "near misses" of all my shorts. It was the story that ALMOST sold to Amazing (back when Amazing was still publishing), and also almost sold to a bunch of different places... now it has a home at TOTU. Hooray.

Well, speaking of summer, my child is terrorizing the coffee shop and since I don't want to be angrily blogged about by others, I must reign him in and go shopping for cat food.

Comments

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

What I want is a child friendly coffee shop in my area. Adult area in one section and them soundproof playroom for the kids in anouther. :)

Congratulations on the debut of the couch story!

[plaidder.livejournal.com]

It gives hope to all the other little couch stories out there.

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