New winter artwork

Phase One: create and upload the new artwork — complete.

Next... write this week's story, involving a woman who risks freezing beneath the Tidal Basin (near the Jefferson Memorial).

Text blocked... again!

(Insert awesome blog post containing a fantasy fiction story too long for a blog format that is supposed to help build my platform as a writer, here.)

:)

Party in Mount Pleasant

Jawbreak Blue, Chapter Seven: A Party on the Pleasant Mountain

When last we traveled with Gyra, Dansel Darrons and their Boatman Stinson, the three had just finished up a holiday at the biggest Red-And-Gold-Reserve any of them had ever seen.  Their time at the Anacostia River resort and casino had also refreshed them—happily—and refunded them a bit of tangible fortune—finally—such that they could continue on their adventure through post-apocalyptic 2012 Washington, DC…

Stinson, though he’d left their boat behind (and it also did possess a gasoline engine), still went along using the lone wooden oar as his walking stick. As they hiked up out of the Columbia Heights subway station, he ignored the swell of echoing young-people’s argument, or love spat, or God knows what it could have been coming out of Dansel and Gyra: 

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

“You already used that one back in Anacostia, Dansel—and what are you calling me now, a man? You’re such an ass!”

Revenge of the writer's block

Gah!  My mortal enemy strikes again... also, I've been busy creating the new Fall background.  But, at least one of the latest doctor cat comics made me a little happier:

http://doctorcatmd.com/2011-09-02/human-nurses-suggestions

Enjoy!