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“This is why I’m glad my parents are not religious. We would skip the whole God thing and just go. That’s the way it should be. You religious people always have to pray first. It takes up valuable running away time.”<\/p>\n

“It gets worse, doesn’t it?” asked Jack.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” I said. “It gets worse.”<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

Colleen got a story published in STRANGE HORIZONS<\/i><\/a> which is one of the story ‘zines I have delivered to my Reader each and every lovely Monday. I love the weird stories I read there, the reviews and the articles on speculative fiction, and Colleen’s October Country<\/i>-type story included this week makes me both laugh (seriously: we religious types do tend to cut down our running away time. Maybe we should run and pray concurrently? Does prayer on the hoof show a galling lack of faith? Then again, how many haunted house movies have people praying in them at all? Oh, wait. The Exorcist…<\/i> – I guess there were priests? Obviously, I’m not up on the haunted house\/horror film thing…) and sigh in a bittersweet way. A haunted house story with a real-life twist. <\/p>\n

You should read the story first<\/a> (and ooh – there’s a place for comments! I never leave comments, but I think I just might), and then read Colleen’s backstory.<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know that Elaine Magliaro – of Blue Rose Girls and Wild Rose Reader fame – has another blog? Elaine’s Political Verses<\/i><\/a> amuse me deeply – I love how she gets irritated and then bursts, not into diatribe, as so many do, but she bursts into poetry<\/i>. I’m always tickled to read her snarky little takes on names we hear bandied about so often in the news.<\/p>\n

(If you’ve never met Elaine, she’s a hoot, and you know her poetry might be an anger outlet, but it’s always funny. I had SO much fun meeting her at the ALA Convention in June!) This week, Elaine’s been invited to guest blog at a popular law blog!<\/a> We kidlitosphere peeps, we totally get around.<\/p>\n

Tech Boy got notes this week from two poor, sad little boys who said their mother abandoned them<\/i> this weekend to go to some kind of blogging conference. On behalf of Charlotte’s pathetic, beleaguered children, I’m looking forward to Sarah’s post on the Kidlitosphere Conference 2010, so I can know their mother’s abandonment was not in vain. I’m already crossing my fingers that I can actually a.) be of some use and b.) actually manage to show up, for once, to Kidlitosphere Conference 2011. Hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n

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Almost November. Just doesn’t seem possible, does it? Enjoy your week!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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