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Down these mean streets a raccoon must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Thanks, Ayla and mystery bunny Blue! Ayla writes:
[This is] Blue, the blueberry goblin from the videos on Wild Backyard Buns. [See previous posts here and here.] He sits right next to the door and eats his treats every night which gives me an opportunity to sit only a couple feet from him on the other side of the glass and get some great photos. He's very regular! He shows up twice a day for a little nibble, although we suspect he's courting a lady bun in the next yard this week and the schedule is off.
Look at those little feet! So demure!
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Whether they owe money, their souls, or their futures, these characters are in desperate straits...
Five SFF Works About Trying to Escape Massive Debt
Can two adorable Gen Z homicidal sociopaths learn to adult together?
Baby Assassins (Baby Assassins, volume 1) by Yugo Sakamoto
Thanks, Michelle and bunny Bashful! Longtime DB followers will remember Bashful’s several stints as the MIBitW - see here, here, and here (and those are only the posts I found right away!). Michelle writes, “Flashback to Bashful being the Most Interesting Bun in the World - inspired by the most interesting otter in the world on [yesterday’s] Daily Otter post!”
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Taking the bus back from the hospital always gets me thinking about Hurricane Sandy. They named a corner after those two boys. They'd be in high school now, or even entering college. It's easy to judge their mother - and don't get me wrong, I do judge her, because she made every possible mistake from before the storm even hit, starting with not evacuating - but people do dumb stuff all the time and it usually works out just fine. People don't usually die because they did something stupid, they don't usually lose their kids over it.
It's been rainy too. It's really just a maudlin way to start a week.
But I still think, every time I take that bus from the hospital, that those kids should've gotten to grow up, and instead they didn't even get to go trick-or-treating that year.
The moral of this post, inasmuch as there even is one, is that if your area is under an evacuation order, or ought to be, fucking evacuate. Or if you've decided to shelter in place, shelter in place. Don't try to evacuate after the storm is already upon you. That's how it all goes wrong.
The Company will surely triumph over the Union upstarts, just as soon as R&D solves a few minor, pilot-killing, bugs in their cutting-edge systems.
Hellburner (Devil to the Belt, volume 2) by C J Cherryh
Via K-PIXEL-N, who writes:
The European hare (Lepus europaeus) is a mammal belonging to the hare family and is considered the largest hare species in Europe. Together with the snow hare, it is the largest member of this group in the region. A striking distinguishing feature from other lagomorphs are its long ears (‘spoons’), which have a characteristic black, triangular patch at the tips. Unlike the European rabbit, the European hare does not dig underground burrows, but rests during the day in shallow, well-camouflaged hollows in the ground, known as ‘sassen’.
(I always picture all this rain after a heat wave like somebody reaching up and literally wringing out the damp air.)
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