If anybody has been wondering what I’ve been up to the past week or two, you can find it here. Or, if you look to the side, you’ll find a link to the new bookstore. It’s a book full of short little fortunes, which have never appeared on this site before, and if you’d like to read something new and support your author the Crow, please buy a copy.

If there was ever a time for reading through the archives, now is it, since I have just spent the past week or so editing everything older than February.

There’s going to be a bit of a break from my doing regular updates for awhile.

Meanwhile, if anyone wants to make it easier for me to do regular updates, they could do so by mentioning or linking to this site, posting comments, or dropping some money in the tip jar.

A little churchmouse ran through this tall tale and did a fabulous, bang-up job making line-edits, so I could go back through and put a right proper coat of polish on it. Now it’s here for you, all bright and shiny.

The churchmouse works for a disaster relief mission, called Wings of Love, and if you dear readers are so inclined please feel free to thank her with a small donation. Though I am not a Christian myself (surely you didn’t think I’d be that easy to guess), I will note they do quite a bit of disaster relief in Louisiana and Mississippi, so ’tis a worthy cause.

Oh, and if you care to drop a few donations my way too, I surely wouldn’t mind.

And now, on with the story…

There will be no new stories this week. We shall pause, and anticipate, as next week shall begin the story of Jackfish Crow.

I am breaking my own rules and apologizing for my lack of updates over the past month or so. My schedule was quite hectic. To make up for it, I have posted four stories below. I will be updating regularly again.

I will also be making an appearance in New York City for several days. I arrive Sunday night. The following week I will be in the Northern Virginia/Maryland/DC area.

A friend of mine over at Consumating would like to do a nice thing for me. If you would like to help her, or feel like also doing a nice thing, head on over there. Don’t fret if you don’t have the scratch, or don’t want to. I won’t be mad.

Also, Consumating was nice enough to link to me this week. Hello and thank you.

Lastly, I know it was kind of a slow week this week. Sometimes those will happen. I promise that this is the only time I’ll apologize since, if you’re like me, you’d prefer to find stories in an update, not excuses.