I applied, and they let me in!!  I am now a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America!  

 My goal for the Clarion West Write-a-thon is to write a new story every week.  I wrote my story for week one this morning.  It's the second July story for One Revolution, so it's flash.  I'm also working on a longer story that I'd like to finish this week.  

The second story is like a stretch goal.  I'm hoping I can make it.  And I'm hoping that I make the nice folks at Clarion a buck or two.  Go check my page out, think about donating.  

 I've joined the staff of Electric Velocipede!  I'm their new assistant editor.  I'm mostly going to be doing online promote-y stuff.  Stretching my comfort zone a bit, but I hope it'll be good for me.  (And fun!)  

There's an official post to welcome me and everything.  You should go check it out!  And while you're there, read some fiction.  It's pretty dang awesome.  

 I sold my story "Ruth's Choice" to Loco-Thology: Tales of Fantasy & Science Fiction!  

 Bronies: For the Love of Ponies is available for preorder!  If you order before June 17th, you can get 10% off!  And 5% of the profits from the book go to the Equus Foundation.  

Go on.  Buy it.  You know you want to.  

 My story "Rekindled Dreams" has been accepted for publication in the August issue of Penumbra!  

 Kazka Press has accepted my story "Remembering Jacob!"  Woot!  

 I signed up to do the Clarion Write-a-thon this year!  Don't know what the heck that is?  Learn more on their website!  You can sponser my productivity, and the money goes to a good cause.  The fun starts on June 17th and lasts till July 27th!  My goal is to write a story a week during the challenge. 

 I sold a story to my first invitation-only anthology!  My story "Beyond the Reach of Moonlight" will be appearing in The Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed, edited by Jennifer Brozek. Woot!  

 For the Stefko Family

     Delilah snaked her arm into the station's broken support thruster.  If she could just get the stabilizer loose, she might be able to get it fixed.  If not, they were going to have to order a new one from Earth. 

     No one wanted that. 

     She planted her magnetized boots and pulled.  The stabilizer didn't budge.  She sighed and punched it. 

     The thruster exploded.  The force pushed her away from the station.  Her safety line caught, held for an instant, then snapped. 

     The world went white. 

***

     Delilah's breath echoed in her helmet.  The filtered air tasted thin and smelled like sweat.  For a second, she had no idea where she was.  Then memory rushed back. 

     She checked her air—she didn't have much left.  Then she maneuvered herself around, looking for the station.  She managed not to cry out when she saw it.  It was so far away.  She'd never get back in time. 

     She was dead already. 

     At least the station was still there.  It looked like the explosion had been limited to the thruster.  She hoped everyone else was okay. 

     She stared at the stars, wondered how long her body would drift. 

     Her suit dinged, and her O2 bar flashed.  "I know," she whispered.  Talking wasted oxygen, but that hardly mattered.   

     No one was coming for her. 

     Her radio crackled, and Tony's voice cut across the vacuum.  "Delilah?  Are you awake?" 

     "Yeah." 

     "I'm sorry." 

     Her stomach twisted.  Of course they'd made Tony monitor her.  Tony, who wrote bad poetry, remembered her birthday, sang like an angel, and had no idea that she was in love with him. 

     "We weren't sure you were alive," Tony said.  "There was an explosion." 

     "I know." 

     "We—we can't get to you in time." 

     "I know." 

     She couldn't tell him now.  It—it wasn't fair.  But maybe she could have a dying wish.  "Tony, would you—would you sing for me?" 

     "I don't know what to sing," he whispered. 

     "Anything," Delilah said.  The silence stretched.  Her chest started to ache.  "Please."  

     "Twinkle, twinkle little star," Tony sang. 

     "How I wonder what you are. 
     Up above the world so high,
     like a diamond in the sky.   

     When the blazing sun is gone,
     When he nothing shines upon,
     Then you show your little light,
     Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

     Then the traveller in the dark,
     Thanks you for your tiny spark,
     He could not see which way to go,
     If you did not twinkle so.

     In the dark blue sky you keep,
     And often through my curtains peep,
     For you never shut your eye,
     Till the sun is in the sky.

     As your bright and tiny spark,
     Lights the traveller in the dark.
     Though I know not what you are,
     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
     How I wonder what you are.
     Up above the world so high,
     Like a diamond in the sky."

     Delilah's breathing grew frantic.  She closed her eyes and listened. 

     Tony's voice broke, but he kept singing.  "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.  How I wonder what you are." 

     Then his voice was the only sound, and Delilah drifted away.