It’s not easy to keep your guard up here in Baja Arizona. Don’t get me wrong. Viewed objectively, the increase in confirmed cases is alarming. Human beings are an unstable blend of wishful thinking and optimism, though, so we’re pretty good at watching positive test results go from 70 to 13,169 and thinking, Yeah, that […]
8/29/17— I woke up this morning feeling a strong sense of potential — the feeling one has in childhood when something rare and wonderful and exciting has occurred. I had a luxurious sense of possibility and joy. I saw Tereus at breakfast, and felt a surge of joy so strong that I a certain it […]
8/25/17— I should admit — at least in these pages — that I have come to care for Tereus: A man who revolted, angered and disgusted me — someone whom I hated. There are times when I still hate him, when his coldness and lack of empathy surprise and anger me. I’ve always respected his […]
There’s not much to report here. I write every day, laboring to bring you, the reader, a thrice-weekly helping of Hot Elf. I toil most days in the salt mines of National Critical Infrastructure. Because of me and geeks like me, this great land of ours can launch a jet off an aircraft carrier and […]
For the second time, Tereus’s valet informs him that Lady Sieia has gone missing. This time, she’s gone to some trouble to deceive her keepers. She packed her doll and a change of clothes undetected, and left the house on foot at midday. When the butler summons the second footman to be questioned, he’s missing, […]
A few figures from The New York Times: On Wednesday, March 18, Arizona had 27 confirmed cases of Covid-19. As of yesterday, we had 70. My sister lives in Colorado, with 364 confirmed cases. That’s a 253% increase from March 15 to March 20. Aside from the Times, I’ve been reading the Guardian for its […]
Inglorion’s recovery is slow and uneven. A few days after he’s consistently awake and conscious, he’s able to sit up and read, spend an hour or two a day in the library or Sieia’s sitting room. After another week, he’s permitted to read the newspaper, though he suspects that they’re withholding certain sections. Neither Valentine […]
He lies there day after day in the little room that Sieia made for him years ago: The massive four-poster bed with its rich silk hangings and down comforter. It’s warm and snug and private, and the shrine is beautiful. Sieia has kept it stocked with candles. Sieia and Virginia feed and care for him, […]
