I’ve been quiet for a while. The demons I’ve been painting were carefully placed outside the back door (yes, I repainted the eyes yellow… and they do look better). The Crazy Cat Lady story didn’t make the top ten, so it’s currently homeless. It did better than the cyberpunk fairy tale, which didn’t get a decent ending in time to be submitted.
I’ve been turning up curtains around the house, which is so fascinating I can hear the thuds as you fall asleep reading this. I’ve written the end of the cyberpunk fairy tale, and another short intended for a competition. We’re also getting active in the garden, digging out the area we want to make into a fruit patch and transplanting snowdrops from the fruit patch to other places in the garden. Each blast of digging and clearing makes a small difference; looking back on what we’ve done since last March, I’m impressed.
I’m looking forward to getting back something resembling an ordinary life when lockdown lifts, but right now, it doesn’t feel real. I went out to a beach forty miles from home last October, just before our local lockdown came into force; since then, I’ve been at home, at home, at home. When we’re let out, I’ll be going out as far as I’m allowed to go.
In the meantime? Still a lot to do to the house and garden.
Julia Chalkley 
Cyberpunk fairytale? That sounds AWESOME. I’m a cyberpunk writer myself, and after having tried my hand at two ‘normal’ cyberpunk tropes, I now want to try cyberpunk comedy. Here’s to making the genre more interesting!
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The cyberpunk fairytale was a call from a magazine I’d never heard of, and it sounded like a good challenge. Too much of a challenge, at first, but it was fun to try – got a reasonable ending at last, but I think it could be better. Cyberpunk comedy? Write it, I’d read it!
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