Short stories, two things

[mrissa]

Thing One: Erasing the Map is up over at Futurismic, if you feel like reading short fiction. Note: this is not one of my lighter, fluffier pieces. It deals with the aftermath of traumas on three different people.

Thing Two: Baen's Universe is buying "Why I Live in the Silver Mine." Yay sale! Yay quirky story finding a home!

Also, I am definitely feeling better today. Not "all better." But better.

Comments

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Wooooo!

[aedifica]

Short stories often leave me feeling unresolved. This one didn't--thank you for writing it that way.

Other responses: it was believable and pulled me in, and thanks for the warning about it not being light nor fluffy.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Woo sales, and woo better. :)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Excellent news on the sale, and good news on feeling better.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Continuity of experience, identity-death, responsibility and memory. This is a conversation I would like to have sometime. Both as relate to 'Erasing the Map' and 'Loki's Net' and in wider terms. Well done.

Congratulations on the sale. I'm happy to hear that you're feeling better.

Note: If you have this re-published sometime, there appears to be an error at the only occurrence of "I have don't", which is after the 22nd hard return.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would have identified memory as one of my obsessions. I think responsibility is one of my hidden ones.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Hidden from whom, exactly?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Um...is this another "just me"?

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Er, well... Strongly evident expectations of human decency as applied to yourself in particular as well as others would perhaps speak to something along those lines.

[pameladean]

I really liked that story. It was not fun, but it had a very good shape.

I always define "better, but not all better" as being the point at which I feel pretty much okay as long as I don't try to DO anything.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Yes, that's exactly it. Except I always do try to do something. Not that I expect today to be any different for having identified this tendency in myself.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

This is apparently my day for nice people on the internet to give me fiction. I'm awfully grateful.

It's a difficult, twisty, deep-roots kind of subject, which does well with your style. Or, which you do well with. Or, which I liked your handling of. Something like that. The tone is even, calm, not excessively light but not delving into drama. That lets the true drama be itself, almost in the interstices of the words.

Congrats on quirky story finding a home. I'm very happy about this particularly because it seems as though it will encourage you (although you probably don't need it) to keep writing quirky stories, and I like them.

And I'm gad you're feeling a bit better.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I don't need encouragement to keep writing quirky stories, but it doesn't hurt anything.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

That's a good story. I'm glad they published it. Very eerie.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that that story found a good home. And congratulations on your other story finding a good home! Also, yay for feeling better!

And yay for still being at work! Wait a minute....

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Read "Erasing the Map." Liked it. Was pleased you didn't take the option of not revealing how the people finally chose.