Laze - Haze

Laughter is the best medicine. (Yes, that was a feature in Reader's Digest. Not sure if it still is.)

Unfortunately, the dragons decided they were hungry, too.

You know things are bad when you have to drive in a snowstorm the week AFTER you got your winter tires off.

Grumble. Still snowing this morning. Hopefully it's getting it out of its system. This is getting pretty late in the season even for us.

Coffee is on, tea is Russian Caravan and Earl Grey, hot water is ready for other teas and hot beverages. The fridge is stocked, but not sure cold drinks are the order of the day, at least for us Northerners.

Later...

I tend to forget about April being National Poetry Month because I'm not sure if we even have that in Canada. I haven't written any poems in eons. However, here's a list of literary magazines current accepting poetry for those who are writing poetry these days.

https://authorspublish.com/40-literary-magazines-accepting-poetry-submissions/

Base - Bane

Fortunately, Redwriter remembered them and found where he hid them from the ants

Loving people are good people.

You know things are bad when the Easter bunny is a snowshoe hare (yeah, we got snow on Easter Monday).

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Today is LIBRARY day

When I was a librarian, EVERY day was LIBRARY day! And even better, I worked in technical services where books were ordered and processed so I got to see everything before it went out to the branches. 😎

Good evening! Hope all are well. We have a couple cm of snow on the ground here. Maybe, hopefully, this really is the last hurrah of winter but it is April in Southern Ontario so pretty much anything can happen weather-wise.

Footnote: I technically still AM a librarian since I have a Master of Library & Information Science degree from an accredited school. Unlike some other professions, the schools are accredited rather than individual librarians so you never really stop being a librarian. However, after 23 years in corporate IT, I certainly don't feel much like a librarian anymore, save the odd time when I get to go, "Well, in the library we did [something relevant to the conversation].

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I hope everyone had an excellent Easter. Mine was low key but pleasant.

Same here. Worked on a new-ish story. It's one I wrote last year and then deleted after a while. Just got bogged down in it. Happening again, too. It was originally geared to another site but now I am trying to keep it "clean" so it can go here or maybe be submitted somewhere.

Putting on some coffee (hey, the West Coast is still in morning technically speaking) and pots of Red Rose and Wakoucha (Japanese Red Tea). Looks we still have some Easter goodies kicking around, which is cool since it is Easter Monday.

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Those kids ran me ragged this morning but they loved Easter goodies and I got to play the part of the EASTER BUNNY.

You didn't hop, though, right?? I mean ankle?? Sounds fun, otherwise. Kittens and bunnies make a cute image.

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Russian Doll (I didn't know it was supposed to HAVE a second season)

It was announced a while ago, sometime last year I think.

It's one of two shows that will eventually get me back to Netflix, though I'm a bit skeptical of it. Series 1 ended rather well so they will really have to sell me on whatever this new adventure is (seems to involve time travel of some kind, maybe a time loop again but of a different sort). OTOH, Natasha is helluva good comic actress so alone will probably get me back. Weirdly, when I was looking her up after getting hooked on Russian Doll, I realized that I had seen one of her first roles: Woody Allen's half-arsed attempt at a musical, Everyone Says I Love You. She was 16 when she did that.

The other is Sandman, based on the Neil Gaiman comics from the eighties and nineties. Some of the best fantasy ever put on paper and Gaiman himself is involved (exec producer and doing some writing), which is usually a good sign with his properties.

Bass - Base

You know things are bad when you arrive at an open casket funeral and the deceased is propped up in the casket with a cigar in one hand and a martini in the other.

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Boys are tough on furnishings.

Indeed. Glad you like what you got. I think the one we have now arrived before Little M left but after his couch hopping days were over (late teens).

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Oddly (well I do wonder how odd most readers find it) I am so very Australian in my writing, seasonally appropriate, Christmas is summer, Halloween is spring. It is the one time the saying "write what you know" strikes home for me.

Well, I'd say there's some obviously Canadian stuff in mine, too. It's just that Canadian isn't as obviously different from other Northern climes as Oz is. I, for one, enjoy the Aussie touches in your work even if it sometimes means a momentary head scratch before I remember to switch hemispheres.

Nice to see you, Annie. Hope the family is doing well.

Throwing on some coffee. Teapots have Scottish Breakfast and Red Rose. Hot water is ready for those needing other warm beverages.

Sunny day, but kind of chilly, here.

So, yeah, this is one of my stories that is somewhat based in reality, even if things get unreal (very unreal).

And this is just a random view looking out from the path into the woods.

The cover image is pretty much the point on the path where the narrator has the titular encounter. This is another side path further up the trail.

Thought I had a thread for this story here, but maybe I talked about it somewhere else. So, last year I came across a comp from Ghost Orchid Press that I thought I would take a shot at. Got rejected (hey, it's my first submission outside of here) but I thought I would post it here.

A couple days ago, I was going for a walk through the woods where it takes place (well, the ones that inspired it, anyhow). I had my phone with me so I pulled it out, and took some pictures. One is now the story's cover image. I'll post a couple more in this thread.

First off, the story is An Encounter in The Woods By Night.

Barf - Bars (thought the bars came before the barf but whatever 😉)

Imagination is a writer's realm.

Unfortunately, surgery is required

Unfortunately, there are so many, the anteater gets a tummy ache

(what goes around comes around, eh)

Bark - Barn

Liars sometimes can speak truth.

Elizabeth needs a new abacus.

Unfortunately, the yummy treats attract a horde of ravenous ants.

Verbal's cats on hearing the news Talia would be gone for a week:

Hey, Sara, going to do anything Easter-themed for the cookies this weekend? Just eating an Easter cookie someone at work picked up at a local bakery (Why Not Cookies?). It's a sugar cookies with two candy eggs on top (candy shell over a chocolate filling).

Lunch with daughter sounds fun. Wish my son lived close enough I could do that but a six hour drive for lunch is a bit much.

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You wouldn't dare because Mrs Ape would soon show you who had the most spirit.

Don't you doubt it.

I'll throw on a couple pots of tea and one of coffee to tide us through the rest of the day. No work tomorrow so maybe writing will happen (and maybe the dead will rise and terrorize the living, too).

Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues died just after their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was announced but before it actually happened. Too bad because he was a key member of the band during their classic 1967-1974 period, writing, singing, and playing various instruments on many songs from that era. He continued, albeit with diminished frequency, in the 80s and 90s incarnation of the band, producing a couple of my favorites of that era. He did have a solo career but it was overshadowed by his work in the Moodies. This song is from From Might Oaks, one of his solo albums.