Well, I managed to get two of the three stories I challenged myself to write this weekend done. I was on schedule, doing just fine, and then Monday morning came and all I wanted to do was curl up on the couch with my two Sopranos disks and indulge in middle-class mafioso merriment.

But hey, two stories in three days ain't so bad. I'll take that anytime.

I'll try and get a third done over the next couple of days.

I hope all of you had a blast at Wiscon this weekend. Considering that Jed and company were at Wiscon, it looks like I'll be waiting a little longer for that Strange Horizons response. It's always a little nervy when a magazine keeps one of your stories past their normal response time. Your mind starts playing games. Well, you think, other stories that were sent after mine have already been rejected so they MUST be seriously considering it. I mean, it's been since the twentieth of April . . .

Then again, it could have simply gotten lost.

Sigh.

Well, once again, the best cure for submission anxiety is to write the next story and get it in the mail, so, time to get back at it!

Oh, and my new flash piece should be up at Alienskin magazine some time today. I'll add another entry when it's available.


Joseph Haines, signing off from The Edge of the Abyss.