and I kneel to the wheel of the fox confessor
Some fox-related news, but first, a fox, found on tumblr:
FLOOF.
It’s kept me company through a day in which I got far less achieved than I would have liked. But! While I am neck-deep in anthology work, other things have happened.
The first is that Bogi Takács has reviewed “Feed Me the Bones of our Saints” and liked it very much. After some commentary that makes me very pleased indeed, Bogi calls it my “best story to date”. :>
The second is that my poem “Sisters” has been published in the first issue of Through the Gate. Go read! And read the other poems! Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, Adrienne J. Odasso, Sonya Taaffe and more! Mine is, as the inspiration page says, about foxes and women c.16,000 years ago, and was a successful attempt to find the voice for a story I was working on about the same subject matter: a more straight-up historical look at this bit of history. That story, “Burials”, is currently out on submission. (“Feed Me the Bones of our Saints” is what happened when I wrote a completely fantastical take on the idea.)
The next story I’ll work on when I’m done with the current anthology work won’t be about foxes. I KNOW. I KNOW.
Originally published at Alex Dally MacFarlane. You can comment here or there.
(All this out of one bit of reporting on archaeo research? Awesome.)
Your poem is very good.
Well. I am also fond of this one, and wish to also be a dapper bearer of shoulder-foxes:
And thanks! :> :> :>
Lovely picture.