Monday, time-confused

The Daylight Savings Time Fall back thing seems to have confused my internal clock as much as the cat.("It's early. Or late. Or something, and I'm hungry. Feed me?"). I woke up late today and was nearly late to work... but now am Very Awake.

It was a good weekend. We acquired cheap butternut squash and tasty apple cider, made steel-cut oats with pureed butternut, and I wrote a lot of words, most of them on my nano.

I have left to do: 2 long pieces for Rix, 1 short piece for Ysabet, a setting-piece or something for the comments perk (Still don't know what to do about that; the story with the most comments isn't really *in* a setting) and the extension piece, which looks to be "Rule 2." Somehow, I don't think this is all getting done before Saturday's Giraffe Call.

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If you have things you like for the Winter Holiday, it's getting to time to post a wish list or lodge a request for baked goodies.
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meeks has posted an update to Teddy's Travels (and on LJ).

And ysabetwordsmith has posted Opening the Gate, from September's mid-month donor prompt session, based in part on my prompt.

...in Foxholes, for the Giraffe Call

For ysabetwordmith's prompt

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The war in Afghanistan had been getting really tricky.

Carl heard it was worse over in Africa and other parts of the Middle East – even down in Western Europe – where every mass grave for the last forty years had been dug up from inside. The unhallowed dead were rising all over the world, and they were, it seemed, really, really hungry.

Here, the worst problem was the MIA. They hadn’t been laid to rest with proper rites because they hadn’t been laid to rest at all, and they’d come back when nobody was expecting them, slipping into their old units and wreaking havoc. Their chaplain was working overtime, and he’d enlisted the help of an imam from a nearby village and a rabbi they’d had to smuggle in.

And now they were being shambled towards by seventeen dead Afghanis – all but three of them young women – two French soldiers that had gone missing years ago, and a guy from their unit.
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