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In process: April 2022

  Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51:  Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Now that it's a paranormal romance, I've written a lot of words.  Short Stories:   I worked on one quite a bit. In addition, the boy set me a homework to pick a story prompt and do that, so I worked on it, and he did it the same prompt too, which was fun. Then one evening I was trying to add to my list of markets and realized that I had a deadline of 2 days to finish something that I had been sitting on for like two months. D'oh!  Critted  11  Got back  0 But in fairness I didn't post anything.  Submissions  1  Out there  1  Rejects  0 Knitting Striped long-sleeved t-shirt  (self).  Started the month just before the increases towards the hem. Maybe I did 3 inches? I only work on it when we watch The Expanse.  Tay Tartan cardigan  (Martin Storey). Started the month about a half-inch from the armholes, with one sleeve barely started. Finished the cuff

What I read: April 2022

  LHC #163: "Mycroft Holmes" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. Sherlock Holmes' smarter brother written by a basketball genius? What could go wrong? Not enough girls, but whatever.  LHC #164: "Passing Strange" by Ellen Klages. Delightful!  LHC #165: "The Angel of the Crows" by Katherine Addison. By a weird fluke, this is another Sherlock Holmes, this time where Sherlock is an angel named Crow, and Watson is a doctor who was maimed by a fallen in Afghanistan named Doyle. I was thinking there weren't enough girls in this story, but changed my mind later.  LHC #166: "A Stranger in Olondria" by Sofia Samatar.  I read the first 20% thinking nothing was ever going to happen, it was all just going to be sunshine and light. I don't know why this bothered me; it's a complaint people make about my stories all the time, that nothing happens. Anyway, plenty happened in the end. I liked its attitude towards humanity; most people came