Asakiyume mita

If I wait to have a chance to write about any of these properly, I'm likely to write about none of them, but if I list them here, then maybe I'll come back and do it?

• Nando has responded to the questions I sent him, questions that were gleaned from people's responses to his latest story. I will definitely be sharing his answers at some point, but I can't do it right now.


• I might write a cordyceps story. There is an awful lot of cordyceps fiction out there recently. But I might add to it. In honor of that possibility, I doodled some cordyceps critters. (Try to ignore the improbably long body of the dog in that doodle. Also: my story would not feature cordyceps critters. It would be All Humans.)


• Partly I want to write a cordyceps story because I feel like I have something in me--much less sinister, I'd like to reassure you (but of course that's what the fungus would get me to say, right???)--that is compelling me to go back to the Amazon. Or that's just me pulling a Digory-at-the-bell-of-Charn** move to forgive my own supremely selfish desires. Whatever, I AM going back. Solo, because Wakanomori does not have the flexible work schedule that I do. In 14 days. A 10-day trip, seven full days down there. I will shove my face in all the flowers, taste all the fruits, listen to all the birds, process some cassava and hopefully make some chambira twine, and ... uhhh, come back to infect everyone with a desire to go down there?

So yes. My news.

**( Explanation of Digory at the bell of Charn )