My Friday fiction is up at Merry Sisters of Fate (merry_fates).. I wrote this one while riding back from Pittsburgh with my husband and pukey toddlers (can you believe that spell-checker thinks "pukey" isn't a word? It should've seen my kids) on Sunday. It was one of those stories where I had to listen to a song on a closed loop all during the writing of it. In this case Coldplay's "Viva la Vida," which happened to come on my Sirius radio and seemed very appropriate.

MY LOVE SLAVE: Please can we listen to something else now.
ME (starting it again): Not yet.
MY LOVE SLAVE: It's been five times now and I know all the words. Now?
ME: Nearly done . . . this one might be short enough that I don't need an LJ cut!!
MY LOVE SLAVE: Woot. Next song, please?
ME: A HA! My plan is complete. Wow. I hope this doesn't suck.
MY LOVE SLAVE: Too late. I'm listening to "Icky Thump" on continuous loop for the next four hours and see how you like it.

Anyway, I hope you like it, because my husband's not going to let me listen to that song for years now.

It's that time of week again -- my weekly short fiction is up at Merry Sisters of Fate (merry_fates ), so please go over and check it out! It's got the words "scream" and "beautiful" in it, so it's got to be good, right?

Other fun things that have happened at Merry Fates over the past two weeks:

• discussions on Tam Lin
• Fiction by everflame 
• discussions on Susan Cooper
• Fiction by brennayovanoff 
• prompt for all watchers to join in and write!
• discussions on our first research experiences
• drawings of small evil faeries

So pretty please go and check it out if you haven't already?

For your convenience, I have provided two comments for you already, for you to cut and paste, depending on how you feel:

Maggie, this community is brilliant and your fiction shines like the brightest star. Or possibly Venus. That's the one everyone always thinks is a UFO, right?

or

I fart in your general direction (said in Monty Python French accent). *throws cow over castle walls at Merry Sister*

See, what a time saver! I'm always thinking about you guys. Your best interests at heart.