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We are Sirens

“We Are Sirens” is live at Podcastle

May 9, 2018 by L.S. Johnson

where it is read by the wonderful Abra Staffin-Wiebe. Episode 521, nearly one of my old building numbers, heh. It is a strange, wondrous experience to hear your work read by another person.

PodCastle 521: We Are Sirens

In other news, I have a new fancy Facebook Page, so if you’re a fan of the FB give it a like! Still can’t think of a username, but I’m working on it.

In other other news, I have finally seen the infinite war of avenging, and I liked it more than I thought I did. I made notes about stake-upping and when is something a lousy decision by a character and when is it just weak plotting. But I also saw this on Twitter today, and it resonated with me. Yes yes yes. These are the kinds of storytelling defaults that I need to interrogate in my own work, deeply, repeatedly.

re: Avengers: Infinity War:

YUH STILL CYAH TELL ME THAT [redacted] IS FUCKING LOVE, AND THE FACT THAT AN ENTIRE UNIVERSAL MAGICAL PASS/FAIL TEST WOULD ACCEPT THAT IT LOOKS LIKE LOVE OR SACRIFICE STILL FUCKING FRUSTRATES ME

— Brandon O’Brien | Shahrazad, beneath a pink poui (@therisingtithes) May 9, 2018

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Why Sirens?

July 18, 2016 by L.S. Johnson

I have a post on Reb Kreyling’s blog about choosing to write this particular trope, especially in our current age:

Why Sirens?

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Sirens

July 13, 2016 by L.S. Johnson

sirens

Sirens came out yesterday, while I was on my way home from the East Coast. Am I allowed to say an anthology is good if I have a story in it? Because Sirens is good. There is a lot of editor-love and publisher-love in this one, and it shows in the best possible ways.

Here’s an excerpt from “We Are Sirens”:

We take our slurpees and we climb up to the top of the bleachers and sprawl there, our bare legs loose and splayed on the warm metal, the wind ruffling at our skirts. We slurp our slurpees with our pursed red lips and we hum, just loud enough for the wind to hear.

We hum the call of Hades, so he’ll be ready for his new arrivals.

And as always we pause and listen. Sometimes we’ll hear an answering melody, like a shepherd’s pipes, or a farmer suddenly bursting into song, or a radio starting from out of nowhere. But though we strain to hear there is only the rumbling of the crowd and the blaring loudspeaker announcing names.

It’s been a long, long time since we heard an answer.

But we are sirens, and someone has to sing.

We settle in to wait as the game kicks off, scratching the bumps of our wings against the railing of the bleachers, our legs tangling pink and olive and brown as we play footsie with each other. We sing in whispers of other sunny days spent waiting, watching games being played, watching cars and horses passing, watching our meadow-grass bending in the wind or the surf crashing against our rocks.

We have been this way a long time, and some time, and not long at all, for all times are then and now and everything between. We will be and we have been and we always are, and that’s all we need to know.

And damn, but we love us some cherry slurpees. One of us farts and some of us titter and we slurp until our straws are sucking air. The final whistle is like birdsong and we sing in response: it’s time it’s time it’s time.

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