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12 December 2005

I'm sick and cranky, and I want a pony. But I'll forgo the pony if someone links me to an intersting short story on the internets. →[More:]Just something fictional though. Sci-fi, general, gay cowboys in love, I'm not very picky when high on Dayquil. I'll read anything as long as it's at least been through a spell checker. Thank you.

post by: FunkyHelix at: 20:00 | 13 comments

This one might make you feel better. :-)

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 12 December | 20:06

Here you go: Light of other days, by Bob Shaw. Its Sf. ish.

posted by dhruva 12 December | 20:10

Do you know about 365 Tomorrows? One original short short piece of sci-fi every day for a year.

posted by sciurus 12 December | 20:15

Hey, Bob Shaw! One of my favorite drunken Irishmen. Thanks, dhruva, it's been awhile.

This story, by Robert Silverberg (from the same site) is also pretty good. My dad paraphrased it to me when I was about eight (although I'm not sure that he ever read it; he may have just come up with the concept on his own), and I never forgot it.

posted by interrobang 12 December | 20:36

No cowboys, but a good story anyway. Written by a friend of mine.

posted by kyleg 12 December | 20:45

How about a Cthulhu Dildo Cthozy?

posted by kellydamnit 12 December | 21:00

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posted by FunkyHelix 12 December | 21:07

Not a short story, but a cute web comic.

posted by TrishaLynn 12 December | 21:10

Wow, I should totally sue interrobangstudios.com.

posted by interrobang 12 December | 21:24

Interrobang: Eeeeep! The main artist is a friend of mine. This is *not* good. *panics*

posted by TrishaLynn 12 December | 23:59

JERRY: I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense...am I wrong?

posted by sisterhavana 13 December | 00:39

neat story, interrobang. thanks for sharing.

posted by kyleg 13 December | 00:55

Self-link. I specifically recommend Eddigan's Cycle.

posted by Eideteker 13 December | 02:28

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