"A Blessing of Unicorns" available online now.
Hey folks. Asimov's has made its Locus-Award-Nominated short fiction for 2021 available online, including my story "A Blessing of Unicorns." Enjoy!
Big UK discount on MACHINE
Hey, folks! Just a quick note to let UK readers know that MACHINE is a Kindle Monthly Deal for 99p at Amazon UK! Remember to always take Mantis Cop's advice!...
Book Club, January 2022
So I mentioned over in the discord that I was reading a book that made me really angry. And in fact, it made me so angry that I wound up posting a goodreads...
I don't believe that everything happens for a reason. (CW, cancer stuff)
Well, I’m done with the radiation treatments. They gave me a certificate and a cute pink superheroine pen and let me pin a pink ribbon to a corkboard. (It...
Peter Pan Vs. Jenny Waynest
Actually I bet they'd get along famously.
Five More Fire Hydrants
CW: cancer stuff and one more piece of practical advice. Well, I am scabrous, rugose, and desquamating. I've got blisters in my underboob and peeling,...
Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
(If you don't know the reference, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand: ) So the Great Minnesota Potato Spill drama has been a source of much joy in many...
Tomorrow, and then the next day, and then the day after that.
(CW: cancer stuff) One of the worst things about modern social media is the damn algorithms that ensure that people will posts out of order and out of...
Pro tips for surviving radiotherapy.
So you've got a hot date with Medusa. 1) I'm really sorry about that. 2) Here's a few things that make the process more endurable. (This is flat-out advice,...
The gifts that cancer gave me.
It turns out being suddenly, dangerously ill isn’t all bad. Especially if it’s the kind of illness I have, which would kill me if left untreated but other...
Karhu on sisukas nainen.
Karhu on sisukas nainen. My friend Chelsea, who is learning Finnish, told me that today. It means, they said, Bear is a woman with sisu. Sisu, per Chelsea,...
Medusa and me
A couple of people have asked for details of how the radiation treatments work, so I wrote this out for one of them, and figured I would copy it here in case...
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
Well, not me. I’m not doing science. But I have been reading some science, and I’m realizing that one of the amazing things about the Current Unpleasantness...
December Book Club
Well, the long drive is good for podcasts and audiobooks! I'm still on the mystery kick. I finished the second Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Must Not Be...
Cancer stuff update, also rambling about life (CW, cancer stuff, obvs.)
Well, as I was sitting down to write this, I heard the news that Betty White had died. So as I compose these lines, I'm listening to Andrew Gold's "Thank You...
I'm a bad person and you deserve better but this is what you get.
Ensemble: Haul out the hellhoundsString up the sigils before a spirit gnaws on usI hear it stalkingI may be rushing things, but ward the walls, don't make a...
End of year roundup...
Hey, folks, New publications this year: "Thanksgiving," 24 November, from Tablet, Ani Wilcenski and David Samuels, ed. (short story) "A Blessing of...
*taps mike*
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSwabs shoved up noses and rapid test scrounging Masking and face shields and HEPA...
Eight down, 24 to go (cancer stuff, horse stuff)
Well, that’s 25% of the radiotherapy done. It would have been a bit more, but today’s treatment was cancelled at the last minute because Medusa was in a snit...
Omicron and fascism
I’m spending a lot of time lately in the car, driving back and forth to radiation appointments. This means that I get ideas in the car (the best time to get...