Linkspam

Bleck. Have just not been feeling well for the last few days. So some links for everyone:

1. If you missed the New York Times Magazine article about what a New Orleans hospital endured post Katrina, and the difficult choices its doctors and nurses made, it's here. A must read.

2. And then, on a totally different note, also from the New York Times Magazine, this article about the making of Where the Wild Things Are. Looking forward to that flick with mingled trepidation and excitement. Where the Wild Things Are was a book I found all on my own and one I couldn't. quite. get. Something more seemed to be just there, just behind the book – and I looked for it, in my bedroom and in the back yard and in my dreams but never could quite find whatever it was. And so it still lingers in my dreams.

Anyway, the bits I've seen from various trailers and so on look marvelous.

3. For the musical math geeks among you: a moebius strip music box.

4. From gargoylerose: Narwhals hunting for affection.

4. Finally, some marvelous free fiction popped up everywhere this week: Cabinet Des Fees and Ideomancer just published new issues (neither publishes frequently enough), and of course you are all regularly checking Fantasy Magazine and Clarkesworld, right? Right?

Like a Thorn

Oooh, oooh! Just found out that Like a Thorn, an anthology containing my short story, "Cinder Feet," is up for sale at Circlet Press. And you can get it on your little Kindles. Yay.

I can't remember whether "Cinder Feet" grew out of
Glass Dancing or the other way around; I think the other way around, since my original intention had been to write very short retellings of fairy tales, and while "Cinder Feet" is certainly short, it isn't quite that short.

I do, however, remember that I had no intentions of writing a BDSM version of Cinderella. But that when I finished, I reread the story and thought, "Ok, this is disturbing."

Which is why it ended up in a collection of BDSM fairy tales, natch. And yes, for quite a few of you, this is exactly the collection you are looking for.

My favorite headline of the day:

Japan's New First Lady Not From Venus, Was Only Visiting.

If you hate the New York Times, the Telegraph also reports on the story here.

I sincerely hope this signals a push for more space exploration. Even if some of us have apparently already done more than I thought we had.