From: brendawriter@yahoo.com   
      
   Four or five years ago I went to a sushi lunch with Madeleine Robins in   
   San Francisco, and we rapidly sketched out a fascinating story set in   
   1865. We agreed to co-author it. Volleys of email flew. An Excel time   
   line was generated. Some epistolatory ms flew back and forth. But it   
   refused to take off and fly, and eventually we both moved on to other,   
   less recalcitrant projects.   
      
   Fast forward to this February. A slot in an anthology appeared. I went   
   to the tangle of story idea and turned the heap over and over with a hay   
   fork. There was an end sticking out. I grabbed it and pulled, and it   
   didn't break off. I tied a slip knot in it and cast on, and it still   
   didn't break off. so I knitted it as fast as I could. In three days it   
   was a short story, four thousand words. It is a little, but not much   
   like, the original story as Mad and I sketched out. I sent it to her and   
   asked her if she wanted to tinker with it, but she agreed that it was   
   perfect as it was. So! "Mr. Lincoln's Elephant" will appear in July, at   
   Westercon.   
      
   Brneda   
      
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