Why do I do this to myself?
Feb. 19th, 2009 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdI have 3 deadlines in the next 31 days.
1) Cleis Press, Steampunk erotica. I have 450/~5000 words. Steamy Robin Hood
2) Total E-bound, gay anth. 15K. Depression Era Prison Break
3) Severed Press, Dead Bait anth, 2-8K. Amazon, Nile, Mekong, or High Seas. Floating the Spring River is out. Dang... and it had such a promising start
“Paddle faster, I hear banjos,” Don sighed, leaning on the door of my little car. He stared out glumly over the valley, where the green leaves couldn't quite hide all the bare white wood, broken in last winter's ice storm, now sticking up like giant teeth.
“Don,” I groaned, “don't start.”
“Nothing's suited Little Princess Pissypants since we left Rolla. Bitch, bitch, bitch,” said Carol from the backseat.
“Hey! Any more sexist or homophobic remarks and you ride on the roof rack.” I took a mountain curve too fast coming down the slope and then my poor overloaded engine chugged up the next ridge. “You two have been at each other all day. We're almost there and I'd like to do the last mile in peace. The company float trip wasn't my idea, so don't take it out on me.”
1) Cleis Press, Steampunk erotica. I have 450/~5000 words. Steamy Robin Hood
2) Total E-bound, gay anth. 15K. Depression Era Prison Break
3) Severed Press, Dead Bait anth, 2-8K. Amazon, Nile, Mekong, or High Seas. Floating the Spring River is out. Dang... and it had such a promising start
“Paddle faster, I hear banjos,” Don sighed, leaning on the door of my little car. He stared out glumly over the valley, where the green leaves couldn't quite hide all the bare white wood, broken in last winter's ice storm, now sticking up like giant teeth.
“Don,” I groaned, “don't start.”
“Nothing's suited Little Princess Pissypants since we left Rolla. Bitch, bitch, bitch,” said Carol from the backseat.
“Hey! Any more sexist or homophobic remarks and you ride on the roof rack.” I took a mountain curve too fast coming down the slope and then my poor overloaded engine chugged up the next ridge. “You two have been at each other all day. We're almost there and I'd like to do the last mile in peace. The company float trip wasn't my idea, so don't take it out on me.”
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Date: 2009-02-20 02:39 pm (UTC)That is a beautiful line. The visual is amazing.
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:06 pm (UTC)Seriously, that's the drive I see every day. It's been a month since the ice storm. There are still branches piled at curbs, still places without electricity.