Thanks! And I drafted it all as one block except for the final break, then added in the ellipses later for online readability. They could have been placed elsewhere for that reason, so it was down to eyeing the different clauses and doing it by feel.

Gotta love the trees that just truck along in spite of (or because of) the lack of intensive management!

For those who would like to hear Scott Andrews attempt to read aloud a 2800-word sentence for 15 minutes (and do a great job!), “Pools of Light at the Center of the World” is also available as a @bcsmagazine.bsky.social podcast episode. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...

I spent four years living half-time in New Bedford for multiple organizing drives from 2017-2021, including 9ish months in Providence! I liked it a lot. So I hope to make it out again sometime. Keeping Cidercon alive in my mind, but odds are it won’t work out. One day, though.

I was thinking of coming out yours (you’re in Providence, right?) for Cidercon in February, but not sure the cost and timing will work out. But yes, let me know if you ever visit (or want to visit) the Finger Lakes! We have cider and literature and waterfalls.

I’ll have to visit someday. I still remember walking into the Hall of the Northwest Coast at the AMNH for the first time and understanding much more viscerally that European colonists (and the countries they created) had destroyed half the world.

Also shoutout to @rjtaylor.bsky.social—we critiqued each other’s stories like a year ago, not knowing they’d be published in the same issue of the same magazine!

All prose should be unfilmable and all film should be unwritable. It’s all gotta be By Night in Chile and Man With a Movie Camera.