Archive for October, 2007

Diary of Adoption: Glaack!

That was my response to the dis­cov­ery that, some­time when I wasn’t look­ing, some­one jacked up the price of kids’ bed­room fur­ni­ture to gen­uinely over­achiev­ing lev­els. Yoshi’s bunk bed got put in this week­end. I got a good base­line price on the frame and dis­cov­ered that while styles var­ied, the costs didn’t. Sigh. The next deci­sion was mattresses. […]

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Diary of Adoption: A Bizarre Hiatus

It’s funny, but after I moved to my new digs — to get more room for myself and my even­tual fost/​​adopt child — I basi­cally lost touch with the agency that I’m coör­di­nat­ing with to make the adop­tion hap­pen. I’m not sure why things unfolded the way they did in the last two months or so; I think […]

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The Seven-​​Year Mirror: Routine

Here we begin to see a lit­tle of what is wrong with Cock, per­haps; what is wrong with his life, con­tin­u­ing from the last chap­ter. Dolen El is prob­a­bly the hard­est char­ac­ter I’ve ever writ­ten, harder even than the free­man Kellis from Beasts of Delphos. While Cock has his quirks, he’s ulti­mately a decent per­son; Dolen El […]

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