I thought JP Morgan would be dead by now.

I did. In Winter Springs.

Also, does anyone else see this as spite? The book-banning law was found unconstitutional, so DeSantis does this to hurt gay people: www.metroweekly.com/2025/08/flor...

It's a rainbow again. WIP: www.orlandosentinel.com/wp-content/u...

As an American who is totally obsessed with international football, watches matches at least weekly, and sees almost all the world cup games, I agree with you. The United States of America is choosing to be outside the world community. Don your dunces cap. Get in the corner. Reflect on what you do.

That's worth an award of its own.

I really like the underscore. Each character has recurring themes (e.g., Hercules, Hades, the Muses) that change depending on context, but Hades (to me) is the best. Pure chaos that never seems to resolve. Fitting. The Greek Chorus uses gospel motif. Mencken is really good. I hate James Woods though

It's nice to see fans of two different teams getting along so well. Nice future! :-)

I wish it were already Petronius Maximus stage.

Kids know and love good storytelling, so that fits. 🤗

How did you see me procrastinating from over there?

You are earning the reward of doing what you love. That's a lot!

My impression is that wasn't Clive Barker's choice. OTOH, he has given us some of the greatest horror-fantasy ever written, so...

Tell them that Art is worth any sacrifice (of theirs). ;-)

Especially the part about seeing the stories in things going wrong! :-)

--> 'And constructs need to have commands, so it made sense to me to have those commands carved onto the shards. Of course, language (of any kind) is an imperfect medium, so the commands are sometimes fallible!' <<-- That's a sff author working. Thank you for your stories! Have a 🍄 and some 🍦 :-)

--> 'I knew I wanted to have constructs in the book, and the bone shards would be used to essentially give them life. That life would have to come from the lives of the people who had "donated" these shards.'

--> 'My friend Marina almost choked on a shard of bone in her food, and that started me thinking about using bone shards as a source of magic.'

I saw this in one of your posts on Reddit back in 2021 about the inspiration of your magic system and it's still a favorite: 'The original idea came from waaaay back when I was at the San Antonio WorldCon with my friends and we went to the food court.