mark_asphodel | I Haz Burnout

I have responses for people, I know. People wrote good things that deserve replies, but this week has been brutal. Long hours, tense negotiation sessions (it's going down to the wire), squabbles with Comcast, and carpenter ants in the garage already made for a lousy time and then a co-worker of mine put the cherry on top by clipping my car in the warehouse parking lot today. He's a very nice man and was quite sorry and the car is one more major malfunction away from going bye-bye, so I'm not angry with him or anything. I just wish he'd scraped the side that was already damaged instead of the "good" side.

On the other hand, back at the beginning of the week when I still had some energy, I finally finished a piece of original fiction I'd been toying with for a year.

"Pierrot Laughs" is the quirky little story about a music reviewer and his infatuation with the newly discovered "earliest music recording ever," otherwise known as "Au Clair de la Lune." It has nothing to do with swords, sorcery, or anything of that nature and gives a far better impression of my usual fictional bent than does any of my Fire Emblem stuff. It's quite short, so check it out if you're curious.