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December / January Issue

Posted: December 18, 2012, 10:15:56 AM
by Robert_Moriyama
Just when you thought it was safe to eat that rum-soaked fruitcake*, the December / January issue of Aphelion is lurking just around the corner. It may pounce any minute now... well, within mere hours... well, in the next day or so.

A new novella by Ian Donato, 14 short stories (including some professional-quality stuff!), another installment of "Thoughts on Writing", poetry, and an end-of-the-world editorial (or turn of the baktun, anyway)... all for the low, low price of the editors' sanity.**

*Actually, it's NEVER safe to eat that stuff. Or light it.

**Hey, I said it was a low price.

RM

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 18, 2012, 12:30:18 PM
by Robert_Moriyama
Verse wrote:Woo Hoo!

Bring it on, I am slobbering for fresh meat. Om Nom Nom!
"Om nom nom"... Is that a mantra chanted by Buddhist Jack Russell terriers?

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 18, 2012, 12:59:54 PM
by Lester Curtis
Mmm, I love fruitcake* . . . too expensive, though, especially when you gotta buy the rum to pour on it.

*yeah, I'm weird.

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 19, 2012, 01:24:17 PM
by Robert_Moriyama
bottomdweller wrote:
One of us is SANE? Who? State your evidence!
The voices in my head AND my shrink agree that I'm 'sane enough' - their words, not mine.
Of course, there appear to be no records of a Doctor Nicholas Scratch anywhere on Earth, so BD's shrink may just be a voice in her head with an accompanying visual hallucinatory component. She needs a third opinion. (Especially since she is now convinced that she is an editor...)

Re: Christmas Pleasures

Posted: December 19, 2012, 03:25:29 PM
by Lester Curtis
Mark Edgemon wrote:
Lester Curtis wrote:Mmm, I love fruitcake* . . . too expensive, though, especially when you gotta buy the rum to pour on it.

*yeah, I'm weird.
Oh yes, I love fruitcake!

My wife Valerie uses a cranberry orange, banana nut bread batter (her recipe) and adds mediterranean dried fruit (not the multi-colored, square-like tiles you buy in hermetically sealed containers in the 10 year old or less bargan bin at the grocery store). Dates, figs, dried plums, raisins and so on and she adds lots of cream to rehydrate the fruit as it bakes. That way, the cake comes out moist.

That and coffee laced with either Grand Marnier (orange-flavored, brandy liqueur) or Amaretto (almond-flavoured, Italian liqueur) and wow!
You'd better be nice to her . . .

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 22, 2012, 04:35:59 PM
by Lester Curtis
Lester,

You will soon have your very own Mediterranean fruit cake coming your way! I hope you will enjoy eating it as much as I enjoy making it.

Merry Christmas,

Valerie

P. S. Please send me your home address by private message.
Wow! What a wonderful thing to do! Normally, I'd say something like, 'Please don't go to all that trouble just for me,' but -- for all the spam I kick here -- this time I'll say, 'I'm worth it!' :D

Thank you!

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 25, 2012, 02:12:17 AM
by Lester Curtis
Lester,

Because I want your fruitcake to reach you as fresh as possible, I'm baking and sending it Wednesday, so it won't sit in some postal warehouse. Along with it, you'll be receiving 2 shots of Disaronno Amaretto for your coffee.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Valerie
Wowwwww . . . my Christmas bonus is even more awesome, now . . . y'know, the human species might be worth saving after all . . . a few of 'em, at least . . . guess I'll have to work on expressing my gratitude . . .

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 27, 2012, 01:31:59 PM
by Lester Curtis
I'll be watching for that, Valerie, and thanks again!

Re: December / January Issue

Posted: December 28, 2012, 01:42:08 PM
by Lester Curtis
Valerie,

It's here! I was worried, because my mail delivery got held up for two days.

I was surprised at the size of the package, but I see you made good provision against the ravages of the delivery monkeys. :lol: They did manage to burst a corner of the outer carton, but everything inside is intact.

I'm surprised at the size of it, too; I'm so accustomed to seeing fruitcakes being about the size of a paperback book (or less). This oughtta keep my mouth happy for an extra long while!

I haven't gotten to dig into it yet, but that will be soon.

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