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Too much is happening in my personal life, and though I am of necessity involved in one case most of it is really the choice of others' to discuss or not, so I won't. Take the last line of my last, rather short post as read.

So: Good news for me, then bad news for any of us who cross the US/Canada Border.
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The good news, which had me yelping for delight on a day where I had been previously feeling pretty much weighed down, is *I SOLD A STORY!* First time in years. (Clearly I need to write short fiction more. And especially send it out more.)

It's an exceedingly short story (Not a micro, but close), and it's the one I was talking about here but didn't do a final edit and start sending out until 2009. It's the one where I got a rewrite request last year September.

(I did the rewrite itself just before things hit the fan for me, but I quite literally e-mailed the rewrite out in the middle of my personal trauma last week on the basis that it was something positive I could try for and have some control over.)

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The bad news is best expressed here. In short, Peter Watts was found guilty of a felony for being beaten up by the US Border Patrol on his way back into Canada. The article is his own words, which might well contain a bias, but he seems to go out of his way to be fair to everyone involved, and to outline clearly both what was disputed, what wasn't (punched multiple times in the face; not disputed. maced: not disputed) and why the guilty verdict came in.

This is not the world I want to live in. I like being able to visit my friends in the US without wondering if this should be my unlucky day. I like being able to ask what's going on and why I'm being stopped without being punched in the face.

(no subject)

Too much is happening in my personal life, and though I am of necessity involved in one case most of it is really the choice of others' to discuss or not, so I won't. Take the last line of my last, rather short post as read.

So: Good news for me, then bad news for any of us who cross the US/Canada Border.
_____________

The good news, which had me yelping for delight on a day where I had been previously feeling pretty much weighed down, is *I SOLD A STORY!* First time in years. (Clearly I need to write short fiction more. And especially send it out more.)

It's an exceedingly short story (Not a micro, but close), and it's the one I was talking about here but didn't do a final edit and start sending out until 2009. It's the one where I got a rewrite request last year September.

(I did the rewrite itself just before things hit the fan for me, but I quite literally e-mailed the rewrite out in the middle of my personal trauma last week on the basis that it was something positive I could try for and have some control over.)

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The bad news is best expressed here. In short, Peter Watts was found guilty of a felony for being beaten up by the US Border Patrol on his way back into Canada. The article is his own words, which might well contain a bias, but he seems to go out of his way to be fair to everyone involved, and to outline clearly both what was disputed, what wasn't (punched multiple times in the face; not disputed. maced: not disputed) and why the guilty verdict came in.

This is not the world I want to live in. I like being able to visit my friends in the US without wondering if this should be my unlucky day. I like being able to ask what's going on and why I'm being stopped without being punched in the face.