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Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 25  - 36:  Need to be taken up.    Chapter 37 - 38:  Finished and posted.  Chapter 39 - 41:  Read and revised.  Persephone (probably not its real name)  Became suddenly unstuck around labor day not because I read a pandemic story or anything (though I did that) but because I was thinking about mobsters and psychopomps of all things.  Short Story The one that I worked so hard on last month, I set it aside for maybe 10 days to rethink its life, and since it wasn't quite working anyway I chose a different market with a different theme and a slightly longer target length. Then I smashed it until it met the story criteria for that market, and now it was 1750 words over length for that market too! So I took out 840 words then tried to make its character have growth. Now I think as a story it works.  Added last month's short to that list of things worth finishing.  Connecting Critted  15 It all went wrong on OWW when my membership expired on Sept 1 and I didn&#

  "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" by Cory Doctorow.  This is very relevant to a lot of the jobs I apply for these days. Basically, interoperability! Anti-trust!  "Rogue Protocol" by Martha Wells.  I wasn't done with book 2 (last month) when I requested this one on Overdrive. The wait purported to be 16 weeks. So I requested the hard copy too, and made it a race. The hard copy won.  LHC #95: "Things we lost in the fire: Stories" by Mariana Enriquez. Probably another in the "girls behaving badly" genre I seem to have been mad about in Jan of 2019. Except it's from Argentina and translated into English, so not the same at all. Really good. I need to read more lit in translation, and also maybe I would love to know a language well enough to translate out of it.  LHC #96: "An Ocean of Minutes" by Thea Lim. It's a pandemic story that I requested back in Jan of 2019, when I didn't know how much fun pandemics were. I