Not your problem

[kinzel]

Last night, after we all should have been long asleep, there was a sudden screeching and scrittering right out front, startling the household. While I rushed about making sure we'd not left any of the cats outside.... came a vast odor. Scrabble walked the perimeter inside, checking all the windows and doors for security. Mozart sat stock still, eyes alert....

So: was the skunk fighting a cat? A coyote? Arguing with a chipmunk over a hoard of birdseed?

The outside of the front of the house still stinks. There a bare lingering scent inside. There are no findable carcasses out front.

Meanwhile: eBay Item number: 250146030702

for those of you who need signable reading copies of first edition of the first three Liaden Universe novels... At last report there was a penny bid.

For writers, now hear this:

Speaking of skunks or at least of skunkworks:

Announcing New Newsgroup: sff.sfwa.skunkworks
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Created By: aburt@aburt.com (Andrew Burt)

This is a moderated Usenet style forum looking at technical innovation in publishing,
and how writer can move forward in the midst of revolutionary change. Although started by SFWA for SFWA members, this moderated group is open to the interested.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Burton
from Montreal

You would think living in a major urban sprawl like Montreal in Canada wouldn't have too many skunk incidences. You would be wrong. I get regular whiffs of skunk discharges during the night. Reason is all the railroad/commuter train right of ways thats crisscross the Montreal Island. I live about 250 meters from a rail line, and the stupid skunks release their ire on the oncoming trains sounding their horn going thru level crossings. There's nothing quite like getting vomit inducing gas attack when you are sleeping or getting off the bus. It's worse in the early winter, the skunk discharge lingers longer.