Just a reminder, I'm doing a reading in San Francisco on Thursday, the 21st (two days from now!). Starts at 7 p.m. at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. Costs $3 to $10 to get in (sliding scale, so you can plead poverty). Details, including links to the other readers (there are four or five of us performing), are here. It's organized by Inside Story Time, and there's a solstice theme (whoo solstice!).

I'm going to read "Winter on the Pyre", which few people have read. It only appeared in a holiday chapbook that we sent out in 2003 (it's not in the new collection, either -- didn't fit thematically). So it's a a rarity. I'll probably never read it again, since I tend to read funny or violent things when I perform, and chose this story more because it fits the theme (and is short enough to read in 15 minutes, unlike "The Third-Quarter King", which would also fit the theme). Don't miss it!