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Aug. 31st, 2015 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsMy short-short fiction piece, "There Are No Eaters Of Souls In America," is now up at Daily Science Fiction.
Fun fact: the protagonist in this story is named Hodel. Unrelatedly, I learned for the first time this weekend that Hodel was my great-grandmother's given name. I had always thought her name was Ada; apparently she didn't like Hodel, and took Ada because she thought 'Ada Adler' sounded elegant. Then, when she married, she talked my great-grandfather -- an Adler on his mother's side -- into ditching his father's last name and sticking with Adler so that she wouldn't have to give up her dream name.
Anyway all this is completely irrelevant to the story; my great-grandmother never immigrated to America and as far as I know she has had no communication with sea monsters of any kind.
(In other publication news, another story of mine, "Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen's Proposal to Bluma Zilberman," will be appearing in Diabolical Plots next May, but that is quite a long time from now, so.)
Fun fact: the protagonist in this story is named Hodel. Unrelatedly, I learned for the first time this weekend that Hodel was my great-grandmother's given name. I had always thought her name was Ada; apparently she didn't like Hodel, and took Ada because she thought 'Ada Adler' sounded elegant. Then, when she married, she talked my great-grandfather -- an Adler on his mother's side -- into ditching his father's last name and sticking with Adler so that she wouldn't have to give up her dream name.
Anyway all this is completely irrelevant to the story; my great-grandmother never immigrated to America and as far as I know she has had no communication with sea monsters of any kind.
(In other publication news, another story of mine, "Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen's Proposal to Bluma Zilberman," will be appearing in Diabolical Plots next May, but that is quite a long time from now, so.)
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Date: 2015-09-01 01:25 am (UTC)So, Adler was also your great-grandmother's family name before she married, is what you are saying?
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Date: 2015-09-01 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-01 03:04 am (UTC)Mazel tov!
It did speak Yiddish, badly, with a sloshy abyssal accent.
Nice.
Your stories have good titles.
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Date: 2015-09-01 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-01 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-02 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-02 01:22 pm (UTC)And good on your great-grandmother, arranging things to keep her dream name! :-D
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Date: 2015-09-03 12:30 pm (UTC)Nana was a very determined person! (In that same conversation in which I learned about her name, my aunt explained to me, "your Nana always said she didn't fall in love with your great-grandfather, she fell in lust." THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATION, AUNT DEBBIE.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-02 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-03 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-06 03:06 am (UTC)And also, hats off to your great-grandmother. ^_^