Sounds like the contractor my wife hired. Only he walked out and left our upstairs (and downstairs) destroyed. Never get ahead on you payment schedule to him. Congrats on the story.

Your baby will have street cred in utero!

Congrats on the story! Just from reading your blogs, I didn’t expect the story to be so dark. Guess you’re just more multi-faceted than I am!

Sorry about the crappy contractor! We bought new, so hopefully *knocks on desk* we won’t have to deal with that for a while…

Congrats on the story! Just “knowing” you from your blogs, I didn’t expect it to be so dark! I guess you’re just more multi-faceted than I.

Sorry about the crappy contractor.

Sorry that posted twice – my laptop is having issues . . .

I remembere that story, but forgot where I read it. It’s so good. I am glad it got published. Woot!
Hang in there on the remodel.

Our uncle had issues with his contractor – so he told the crew that if they came and worked on the house all day (this was during the holidays, so they’d been absent) he’d buy each one of them a six-pack of Miller Genuine Draft. He said he’d never seen people work so hard before in his life.

Congrats on the publication. The story is great. I was completely enmeshed in it while I was reading it and I am still mad that it’s over.

Also, I had scurvy once. For real. I was so unenlightened that I didn’t even know what scurvy was until I got it. And that shit hurts. At the time, I seriously considered pulling out all my teeth, thinking it might alleviate the pain in my gums. It was awful. And two and a half years later, my friends are still making pirate jokes.

Take your multivitamins, is what I’m trying to say.

That was bad ass like a motha fucka! Hot damn woman, you can write. I especially like how you put the only part with real clues about what he did right in the middle of a scene where he’s FUCKING JACKING OFF! As if you wanted to force your readers to picture that. Gross man.

But seriously, it was great. I loved it. I imagine the guy was porking some dirty politicians wife and convinced her to help him pull a job on her husband. But Senator Evil caught him and fucked up his arm and told him he could live if he brought back the money with interest. An ass load of interest he didn’t have. So he hid the money somewhere and booked it out of town. Somewhere shitty like Philly or whatever. And he sent Senator Evil a message telling him where he’d stashed the money. But he was like “Fuck that shit where’s my interest you wife stealing, money stealing dead man?” And then he went on his vendetta hunt and caught the guy. And I’ll bet his last word was dammit.

Of course that’s the fun of stories where you leave almost everything up to the reader. I don’t suppose you would care to share what you imagined happened to start all that crap? No? Didn’t think so.

By the way, how the hell do you stay so hip all the time? I mean Thug Lit seems pretty cool. Aren’t you thirty two? I’m twenty three and I’m already losing my ability to be cool. Quickly at that. In fact next week I plan on switching to penny loafers and starting a precious moments collection. Or whatever boring old people do. Not that thirty is old yet, but it’s certainly past the average finger-off-the-pulse-of-what’s-hip age. If I survive to thirty I’m gonna need pointers to stay cool. Help me help myself.

I totally remember that story…you rock!

And Josh: “precious moments” seriously made me choke on my coffee – hilarious, as usual.

Write a book already! That was great. Congratulations!

I know my mind is a mess right now dealing with some crap going on, but I did not get that short story. Reading Dick and Jane would be about as much as I could handle today so it’s not your fault. I’ll come back and read it again someday when my mind is a bit freer. I did like the style.

The story was great, and like Jess I thought it was over too soon.

Gosh, how frustrating on the contractor and your torn up house. Can you remind him that he promised you would only be without a kitchen for 3 or 4 days??? Contractors have everyone by the short hairs as Seattle is doing so much growing and remodeling now… I drove past Bellevue on the 405 today and counted 8 cranes putting up new buildings. Contractors can write their own ticket.

But I assume you got to eat real food while you were on vacation – to ward off the scurvy for a little while longer…

You need to show them the Psycho Pregnant Woman Rage. Attack!!!! Stupid contractors. I liked the story – noir is so much fun. I wish I could write that sort of thing without feeling stupid and fake. I always overthink everything and get all hung up on feeling like I look foolish.

WOOOOOOOOOO, congratulations!

Also, that is so frustrating that they got NOTHING DONE while you were away. They could have gotten SO MUCH CRAP done and you wouldn’t have had to experience it. But no.

Also, I don’t get what happened in the story. It sounded really cool, though. Very Thug Lit.

wow, girlfriend. first of, very much congratulations to you on getting published! that is amazing and fun and awesome! and, by the by, a VERY VERY great short story. it’s hard to write those suckers; i have tried many a time. good amount of suspense and questioning and details–you’re sucked into the character in a very short amount of words and that’s no easy feat. hooray! thug lit, eh? sounds pretty badass.

ok, i am a dork. i always thought your last name was sundry.

I hope this link works, but when I saw this comic the first thing I thought of was you, which is either funny or depressing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/larvamachine/Picture1.png

Love your writing…inspires me to flex my brain a little bit. Congrats on the publication and cool shirt and just keep picturing the end results of your re-model. You will be so glad you slogged it out when you have a shiny new kitchen/breakfast nook/other room to look at..

Hey, Linda! Congrats on the story publishing- you’re officially awesome now, right? ;) And now I have something for you to sink your chops into: a zombie music video perfect for loading to your iPod/iPhone.

http://dragoncontv.com/dctv2006/dctv2007_re_your_brains.mp4

I immediately thought of you. ;)

Wow! Excellent writing!!
That’s nice that your contractors did absolutly NOTHING while you were gone! Come on!

Nice read but like others I didn’t quite get it. I’ll take Josh’s explanation for now!

Josh, why don’t you have a blog???

So cool. So very cool.

(Also random, but I am intensely jealous of your stellar skin in the previous photos.)

Jonniker: that’s BARE ESCENTUALS all the way, baby! The power of MINERALS! Because O, the zits.

That story is awesome! I love your short stories.