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In process: October 2021

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 31-51:  Need to take up comments and revise.  Synopsis:  Maybe I should post it for comments.  Had a glimmering of what to do with Fairfax next.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): I was thinking about my friend's romance novel, where there were some flaws but some things she totally nailed, like the structural expectation of three sex scenes, each with a different emotion going in/out. Then I realized that if this story is a romance novel, then I'd just written the first of those three sex scenes. One of my MCs is ace, so there's not actually sex though.    Short Stories:  In order to have something for other people to crit, I pulled something out of the trunk. Everything always takes longer than I think it will! I didn't get through it.  Critted  9  Got back  2  Submissions  0  Out there  0  Rejects  0 Knitting Anna Maria  (Faroe Island Knits). Both sleeves were started at the start of the month. Finished the first one.  Knitloops  (

What I read: October 2021

LHC #138: "The Limits of Enchantment" by Graham Joyce.  I read "Some kind of Fairytale" which was amazing a few years ago. I'm not sure why the library doesn't have more copies of his books?  LHC #139: "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner. eBook. I am always surprised when I read books that are very highly regarded and they turn out to be about characters. I have no idea why this is so. This book was a delight, though some of the extras were less polished.  LHC #140: "The Perfect Predator" by Steffanie Strathdee PhD, Thomas Patterson PhD, and Theresa H. Barker. A memoir about antibiotic resistant bacteria and phages. I devoured it.  LHC #141: "The Dragon's Path" by Daniel Abraham (half of James S.A. Corey, I've read one of his books). I talked this up so much, Ed wants to read it too. He will love it.  LHC #142: "The Iranian Metaphysicals" by Alireza Doostdar. Hard copy. Funny story, the night before this became