Well, I'm home sick today, currently presenting two out of the five primary symptoms of streptococcal sore throat. (Quoth my mother, "Honey, you are the only person I know who says 'Mommy, I've got strep' by announcing that you're presenting primary symptoms of something I can't pronounce.") Big fun for the whole family! For the morbidly curious, I'm feeling deeply unwell, have marked swelling of the throat and tonsils, difficulty swallowing, tender lymph nodes, and so much red inflammation that I look like one of my own manuscripts post-editing pass. Not much fun.

In an effort to make myself feel better, I've been catching up on some of the television that's been building up while I was off doing other things, like writing, editing, and attempting to have a life. Well, let's see. How about The Eleventh Hour? Crazy science always makes me feel better! Yeah! And this episode is about...

...smallpox getting loose in Philadelphia. Right. Well, now that I'm sick and deeply disturbed, what about watching some ReGenesis? Originally created for Canadian television, ReGenesis really seems to have been created with me in mind, since it's sort of a crazy cross between Numb3rs and House, only instead of fighting either crime or weird medicine, they fight genetic crime and monstrosities of science. ReGenesis will make me feel better! And the first episode of season one is about...

...a horrible hybrid of camel pox and Ebola getting loose in Canada. Right.

I'm going back to bed.

The Edge of Propinquity is a monthly webzine edited by jennifer_brozek, and is updated the fifteenth of every month. It's a creepy, atmospheric medium that specializes in stories focusing on the hidden world around the more mundane, everyday world that most people are aware of. Which is all very nice, and it's an awesome webzine, but why am I telling you this again?

Because I have a story in this month's issue. And I think that's both pretty spiffy, and something that people would probably like to know. My story, 'Let's Pretend,' can be viewed currently through the main page of the Edge, or by following the permanent archive link:

http://www.edgeofpropinquity.net/library.asp?id=202

It's a fun little slice of creepy pie, and I'm pretty pleased with it. More to the point, it's the first slice of creepy pie I've served anywhere in 2008 (which was a primarily novel-length year), so I'm incredibly delighted about that part of things. Go, read, enjoy the whole webzine, and meet my creepy friends. I think you'll like them.

I definitely do.