Angels of the Meanwhile

Elizabeth McClellan, stunningly talented poet and good friend, has had a run of really dreadful medical-insurance wrangling, detailed here.

As a consequence, Alexandra Erin took it upon herself to help by asking writers to contribute to an e-book collection, Angels of the Meanwhile, to raise money in support of Elizabeth. It’s pay-what-you-can to pre-order the e-book, and the Table of Contents looks utterly wonderful:

Bits of Prose (Flash Fiction, Prose Poems)

• This Is The Place Where Lost Things Go – Kythrynne Aisling
• The Merry Knives of Interspecies Communication – Bogi Takács
• The Choices of Foxes – Sonya Taaffe
• Foam – Dusti Morton
• The Sweat of their Brows – Alexandra Erin
• The Dirty Fairy – Deborah Walker

Verse

• Beastwoman’s Snarled Rune – Rose Lemberg
• Pain Shared Is Catching (For April Grant) – Erik Amundsen
• Gorgon Girls – Saira Ali
• This Is What It’s All About – Lupa
• Blodeuwedd – Amal El-Mohtar
• Burning Wings (For C.S.E. Cooney) – Jennifer Crow
• The Changeling Always Wins – Nicole Kornher-Stace
• The First Wife – Lev Mirov
• Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527 – Lisa Bradley
• The Secret of Being a Cowboy – Catherynne M. Valente
• Children of the Faun and Fae – Merideth Allyn
• Ivan Icarus – by C.S.E. Cooney
• We Named Our Grief Irene – Virginia M. Mohlere
• Fucking Doughnuts – Legoule
• Allison Gross Speaks of the Worm – Gwynne Garfinkle
• Sand Bags – Dominik Parisien
• Hot Wet Mess – S.J. Tucker
• These Are Days – Roni Neal
• lis pendens – Mike Allen
• Thread Between Stone – Bryan Thao Worra

Prose Stories

• Inside, Looking Out – Alexandra Erin
• Changed – Nicolette Barischoff
• Fire Flight – A.M. Burns
• The Legacy Box – Satyros Phil Brucato
• Illusions of Safety – Angelia Sparrow

Time constraints meant I couldn’t contribute more than a tiny poem I’d been clutching to my hard drive’s heart for years, but it’s one of which I’m very fond, and the first thing I ever wrote about Blodeuwedd in response to reading The Mabinogion.

To the above, Alexandra adds:

While we’ve got a quite bit lined up, including some fairly big guns, I have been told there’s more to come from people who are still working on their pieces, particularly from the local poetry community that surrounds Elizabeth. There are a lot of people who want to help. I’m not trying to be coy or drum up more interest by not naming names… I don’t want people making up their minds based on something I don’t actually have on hand yet. I just want to make sure everyone knows that you might wind up with even more than you bargained for.

So there you have it — and I really hope that what Elizabeth ends up with in turn is peace of mind, ease from pain, and a speedy recovery.
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