Tongueless

What with various things going on this week, including yesterday's and today's addition of major (and needed) public utility work just across and down the street and about to be just outside the house, I completely missed that my poem Tongueless just went up at Strange Horizons a couple of days ago.

I had more to say about this, but the drilling is making poetic thoughts kinda difficult, so I'll just leave you with: Enjoy!

A Severed Wasp

My post about Madeleine L'Engle's A Severed Wasp just went live.

Since this is a book dealing with both Nazis and bisexuals and forgiveness, with a touch of child abuse thrown in, I found it very difficult to write a balanced review here. If you're not happy about reading about any of this, can I mention again that Tongueless, loosely based on a Greek myth of revenge, is up at Strange Horizons today?

Revenge

Grumble. Just found myself typing AND THE )^)&^*(*(&(&&&^# DRILLS WON'T STOP SO THE DRAGON ATE THEM AND SQUASHED THEM! in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with dragons or drills, which I am taking as just one of many signs that this is not going to be the best of days for creative activity. So, let's chat about a television show instead.

Though before I start, two quick notes: James Owen is offering his book Drawing Out the Dragons for free for another few hours, and Jim Hines is starting up an Ask a Goblin advice column.

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( And now, very spoilery blogging about Revenge. )