I quite thoroughly botched the Khayyam story, which I've tentatively titled "Happily Ever After." Oh well. I will finish it, because I want to see what happens next more than anyone, and I can't find out until I've finished what happens this time. Next time, I'll need to write a more humorous one. I tend to write one funny Khayyam story for every serious one, but so far none of the humorous ones have been published. It's a bit sad, but oh well. "The Road Not Taken" is the next anthology theme, so I'll have that work cut out for me, but it'll be fun.

On the other hand, I did manage to write something just tonight. I'm half-tempted to submit it. It's a Harry Potter fanfic, so I don't think it qualifies for the anthology, but hell. I find this small success at once invigorating and somewhat pathetic. I always do better when I react to someone else's work, but I wish that for once I could have a purely creative idea, not just a creative interpretation. Even the story I'm half-through with for Khayyam is a reaction to Bryan Adam's "Run to You."