We considered simply blowing off SHOWCASE this week. We have a nice lineup of stories in the works and we’ll be publishing them next Friday, but I also had a critical deadline this week for a big software release that’s shipping the first week of December—yes, I do in fact have a day job—and it went right down to the wire.
So we got to Thursday and realized: none of the stories we were working on would be ready in time for SHOWCASE #11. Nor would we have a movie review: Badger & Vole went off to report on Yet More Hunger Games but were last seen laying on the sidewalk outside of the movie theater exit door, curled up in fetal position and screaming, “No more big-budget crappy derivative movies made for emotionally incontinent 13-year-old girls!”
And while we have had some potentional contributors contact us about writing for Learning Experiences, nothing had made it to the point of being ready to publish yet. Seriously folks, if you have a story that you’ve previously published in a professional market, and an interesting story to tell about what you had to go through to get that story published, we’d love to hear it.
So...
So just as we’d almost made the decision to give SHOWCASE a miss this week, a pile of email came in from people who were “concerned by our silence.” (We’ve been silent? Odd, we thought we were concentrating on work.) Then Friday morning dawned, and with it came—
Well, if you, like us, have grown truly and deeply weary of the way your Baby Boomer elders get together every November 22nd to wallow in their memories of The Awesome Sixties and sing a few verses of that old yuppie spiritual, “Where were you when they murdered JFK?”, then you simply must read “Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye,” by Carly Berg, which you’ll find in SHOWCASE #9. So for one terrible moment, we considered simply bringing that story to the front page again, only this time with a big black border.
But, no. Get thee behind me. Not only would that be too tacky even for us, but it wouldn’t be fair to all the other great writers whose work has appeared in SHOWCASE thus far. Instead, we decided that what we really needed to do—since people responded so positively to the Rampant Loon Press catalog, and since we were already working on it anyway in preparation for the big site redesign we’re planning to unveil on January 1—was this.
Enjoy!
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SHOWCASE
The stories thus far...
