I haven’t updated in a while, but I have some very good reasons. I’ll be going out of town for a week shortly (Vermont) and then moving into a new house after I return. Not to even mention all of the weddings and book release parties. This has left me with precious little time for writing. When I get back though, I will redouble my efforts.
The other day I received an odd comment on a ficlet I wrote a few months ago. All it said was, “pagans don’t make sacrifices.”
I was kind of confused by this, since all of the pagans I had ever known personally or read about have at least given symbolic sacrifices at least.It’s not my best work, in fact it might be my lowest rated ficlet to date. But I still stand by my work. It’s about burning an effigy, something pagans have done for centuries, whether fluffy bunny types want to admit it or not.
Anyway, here’s the offending piece. I was basically playing around with using the Fibonnacci sequence as a poetic meter. I don’t know if it works or not, and I should probably never write a poem again. But here it is: