like a bonsai'd skellytum

Here I am, in a new apartment close to Montrose Harbor, in Chicago. Think I'm feeling ... happy? My wireless network is named "honeysuckle," which is used in witch-work to end unproductive nostalgia. Politics is going to all hell, and I think I'm very tired somewhere, but I'm busy and I'm still looking forward. Following my feet. I can walk to Lake Michigan, and that gives me peace. I've got enough work from home, but I'm also trying to psyche myself up to find decent work somewhere else. I don't think service work, tho I'm sort of tempted to go work as a cocktail waitress in Uptown ... I think I should probably make contact with some office at Harry Truman, and see if I can make myself useful there at all. I hear there's also a good feminist bookstore in my neighborhood.

I am trying to workshop some poems and maybe read them somewhere. If u wanna help with that, super let me know -- I'd love some second readers there. Not doing yuletide this year. Still trying to finish the finishable fanwork on my hard drive, but I'll admit I haven't been writing much. I want to be. Maybe I will be soon. Also having weird desires to try origfic.

Have any of you read the new Vorkosigan novella? I think I should maybe buy it for myself.

Fic: On Orchids, Kairos series, Meg/Calvin, M

new fic yay!

On Orchids (3086 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kairos (O'Keefe) Series - Madeleine L'Engle
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Meg Murry/Calvin O'Keefe
Characters: Meg Murry | Meg O'Keefe, Calvin O'Keefe, Branwen Zillah Maddox O'Keefe
Additional Tags: Motherhood, Time Travel, post-A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Series: Part 2 of Start over at the wires, use lions! use thunder!
Summary:

The essentials of the story were unchanged; Beezie Maddox had married Paddy O'Keefe when she was still too young, borne his children in neglect and poverty, and finally suffered his abandonment when Calvin and his siblings had still been small. So, Meg wondered as she sat in the kitchen of the O'Keefe house, what had Charles Wallace changed that could account for the appearance of all these new aunts and uncles for her baby? What had the unicorn done to mend the schism that had always separated Calvin from his family?