Happy Earth Day!

I'm not a huge environmentalist or anything, but I have a soapbox: Save the Monarch Butterfly. I love them, obviously, and it makes me sad that they're declining. The biggest issue is the efficiency of the herbicides farmers are using. They kill the milkweed that the monarchs depend on to lay their eggs and the caterpillars use as their sole source of food.

I am doing my part by planting milkweed this year. I saved the seeds from my plants last summer, and my kids planted them last month. We'll be passing them along to our friends to help out the butterflies to visit us this summer.

Last year I wrote a first-time story called Milkweed and Gossamer about an eighteen year old girl who makes it her mission to plant and give away milkweed. Give it a read for Earth Day, if you like.

Come with a Friend

Well, my little tale didn't win, but my good friend's did. The Grimm Reaper by AMoveableBeast. It's a pretty horrific tale about a serial killer that carves fairy tales into his victims' skin. It's pretty gruesome, but the killer gets his in the end, Grimm-style.I'm glad I read this one in the daylight. That was horrifying. Excellent, as AMB's tales always are. The way he winds his words together makes his stories delicious, even when the ingredients are rotten.

TS/CD is a nice category.

Come with a Friend posted on Friday, and I'm pretty pleased with the result. The Transsexuals/Crossdressers category seems pretty nice. The feedback has been good, and I got 119 votes in 48 hours. That's much better than usual for me. The score isn't high enough to hope for a win (4.58), but I think I just might try to do a sequel to this one. Strike while the iron is hot, you know? We'll see how it goes.

April Fool!

I finally submitted my April Fools' contest story, Come with a Friend. Now I wait in limbo for it to appear for all to see.

I'll wait patientlee, I guess.