PZB gave me ovaries.

[readingthedark]

http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1265686.html?thread=17455382#t17455382


Wow.

I think Poppy Z. Brite just bestowed ovaries on me.

This is the highest honor I've received in my life so far.

(For anyone who cares, reading Exquisite Corpse when I'd decided to give up on being a deconstructionist literary theorist and gone to LA to take a job for a company that sold cardboard movie diplays, mostly to Disney, changed my life. I wandered into Dangerous Visions and bought EC. That led to discovering Christa Faust, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Kathe Koja quite quickly afterward and realizing that I had to write fiction after years away from it. The cardboard people offered a job that paid more than I'll ever make in my life. I said no and went to grad school for an MFA.)