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<\/a><\/div>\nWe had to drive a couple of miles down the road to find them, but there they were. One of them had antlers.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAlso in that field: cats! Two of ’em.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nI know what you’re thinking. Cats and elk, living together? Madness! Relax. It was only a temporary cohabitation, as the cats ran off shortly after they realized they had been seen.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAlso: still snow on the mountains.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nIn writing news, DeeAnn and I missed Jennifer<\/a>‘s morning talk on multitasking (today was our wedding anniversary–we slept in), but we enjoyed Kat<\/a>‘s afternoon chat on “Voice and Inner Dialogue,” which turned into a group discussion about the use of various points-of-view.<\/p>\n Tonight, the nice folks from University Bookstore<\/a> set up shop in the lounge and sold us a couple of anthologies, which we got signed by their respective editors and some of the contributors. Then everyone watched a repeat performance of Mary<\/a>‘s Little Tiny Puppet Show<\/i>™. After that, talk inevitably turned to theater war stories and tales of animal penises.*<\/p>\n We finished our collaborative short story this morning, and a couple of people have asked to read the final draft. We’ve also been told to submit it to Clarkesworld<\/a> first, since they publish a wide range of stories and are fast on the draw for rejections. So we’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n In any case, DeeAnn and I both enjoyed the collaboration process, and are already talking about the next story we’ll write together. I love my wife!<\/p>\n