With my Keela story (Voice of the Sea) sent off to WOTF, and Feora (Warrior’s Flame) still quietly cooking in a black stewpot of no-news (it’s also at WOTF), I’m trying to keep myself busy.

So, I have a Ghost Spider flash piece that will go out soon, a quicky Halloween story with a witch and her schneedlebugs I’m working on, and an S-and-S style gladiator story that I’m just starting.  They’re all very different in tone and mood, but there’s still a certain edge to them that ties them together in the family of ‘stories that will make you frown’, you might say.  My Taker’s story, which will go to WOTF by Dec. 31st, is also in this family of darkish pieces wherein one glimpses a razor’s edge.

So maybe after this I should focus on something really light.  Maybe even soft.  Perhaps a magical version of Pride and Prejudice . . . but that would have some deep passions below the surface.  A fanciful story of a priestess and a pirate?  A silly story of a boy in a village who can’t stop belching?

Or, maybe I’ll just dig out a Terry Pratchet book for a change of taste, then return to my fare of Spiders and Schneedlebugs.