A quick catch-up and a fun short story.

I'm almost...ALMOST finished editing the paper on Melville and Lovecraft. The due date to the editor is this Friday, August 15. Yikes. But I think I'm just about there. I'm happy with how it's turning out. As always, the time it's taken has been necessary, and as always, I don't grasp that until I'm nearing the end.

Here's a fantastic short story:

http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/librarians-in-the-branch-library-of-babel/

It's called "Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel" as in the URL and is best read if you've already read Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Library of Babel." I urge you to take the time.