For those of you who were off LJ over the weekend, here's a few items of potential interest from this blog:

Fiction: "Daddy's Caliban"

lasirenadolce had a birthday

So did my sister, lillypond — Cheese blogging ensued.

I (mini)ranted about politics

jimvanpelt's seven sentence story contest

Another contest, this one entitled "amuse me" — Prize (after voting poll) is a very rare copy of my limited edition dark erotica chapbook Loving Julius. Voting poll to go up in a couple of more days, so there's still time to get your entries in.

kenscholes and the_child celebrate his shiny new fantasy series sale to Tor

And of course, Link Salad here, here and here.