Hey, it's Labor Day! Which means, like, what? When you're no longer in school, it doesn't feel like some sort of benchmark, although with one school age child it does have a lingering sense of that, but probably more so for my wife, since she was the one at home during summer break. Labor Day last year was when we really saw the first signs of the coming recession, at least here at the store I run. I remember going to work last year on Labor Day and thinking it was going to be slammed with people, being a holiday and all. The day turned out to be dead. I was shocked all day long. If we had known then what we were in for...
I'm maybe a week or two from finishing another manuscript. This one is called In the Hands of all these Threads, the Promise of Sirens. I had written some separate pieces and then realized "whoa these could fit together" so I've been working at tying them together. As a whole it's kind of a deconstruction of ancient Greek/Roman mythology, including some complete wrecking ball translations of a few of Ovid's Amores. My old Latin teacher would probably smack me upside the head if he saw what I've done.
In other news, my story "Soft Drugs" will appear in the November issue of Emprise Review! I'll post a link when that goes up, but until then go check out their fantastic current issue.
Congrats on all your writing accomplishments!
ReplyDeleteYou have a 2 yr old? And a school aged kid? Sorry, I'm either blanking or never had a clue, haha. I like Labor Day because sometimes it's the same as my birthday, and if not... it's nice to start school the week before, then have a long weekend to stress out, thinking "What the hell am I thinking?!?!"
14 month old and 11 year old!
ReplyDeletei agree, having that long weekend after the first week of my undergrad was always nice. lots of reacquainting ourselves with booze, bowling, chasing cars, etc.
oh and thank you!!
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