From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com   
      
   On 2016-04-14 02:27:34 +0000, Brenda said:   
      
   > 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   
      
   Is Rama IV of Siam involved?   
      
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   John W Kennedy   
   "The blind rulers of Logres   
   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
     -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"   
      
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