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06:03 pm - It's fun to live with a writer, v. 3.0.1

Waste water now flowing as it should once again, I've been able to add the odd thing into consciousness other than the calculations of how long it'll be before I dare flush a toilet, and how bad might be the bad consequences of doing so too soon. So, beccadelarosa and I had a nice session going over a story she wrote a while ago which we hadn't discussed yet. Great story, and the snippets of info about light she worked into it are fascinating.

One of the things I enjoyed on reading it first was seeing the infestation of moths we had in our house appearing - transformed, of course - in the story. I wouldn't have treated her story moths to the Vacuum Cleaner of Doom as I did the RL ones. This often happens with Bec's stories - once I told her about a piece I'd heard on the news reporting a study showing that magpies were capable of recognizing themselves in mirrors as themselves, rather than thinking it was another bird. She thought that was really interesting too, and it was much fun to see it turn up in a story - a story which is just up on Farrago's Wainscot, as it happens.

This isn't just a plug for that story or the last issue of Farrago's Wainscot, though, but also reporting on a cool (for me and Becca) but ever-so-slightly disturbing 'coincidence' . A while ago Becca wrote a long story called 'Poison', in which the main character works in a hardware shop. I immediately recognized the shop as one in Dun Laoghaire, a few miles away. I had to go in there to get a key cut for my next-door neighbour a few days ago, and while I was there, a tall guy with a thick, French-sounding accent came in and asked for poison. I could hardly wait to text Bec and tell her this, because -- well, that's how the main character gets to meet the other characters, with a French guy going in to his shop to buy poison. Whoa! (Needless to say, or at least needless for those of you who know Becca's writing, it's fantasy, rather than a murder-mystery type poison purchase.)

That story hasn't yet been taken by anyone, probably because it's too long for most zines, but I'm certain this sign from the universe means it will be published someday! Or else it's just the universe giving a cheer for writers, which is good too.