Happy Birthday!

Today is always the best part of a usually-busy month. Why? Today is the Zweeble's birthday!

Right now, four years ago, I was sitting at this same table (in a different seat), doing the same thing I'm doing right now (surfing the web). My mother and grandmother were here, and my husband had just rubbed my huge (and wriggling, as the boy has been a morning person since conception) belly and said, "Any time now, little man, any time," before leaving for work.

And so, as for many things, I totally blame Scott. :)

Four years later, I have a lanky little four-year-old who informed me this morning, in no uncertain terms, that he is not a baby.

He's so awesome.

And a little later, I'll have another piece of awesome for today ...

You need something to read today! Well, here you go!

And now, the other piece of awesome for today:

My short story, "Items Found In a Box Belonging to Jonas Connolly" is up at Strange Horizons.

(This is the story that was inspired by Tiffany and Lorna's clothes, just by the way.)

I am really, really excited about this! Strange Horizons is one of my favorite spec fic magazines, and I am thrilled to have a story on the same site as Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (among others--really, after you finish reading my story, you should go poke around their archives, but you might want to wait until after work because you can get lost in there).