Naruto - the fabled Kankuro-drunk-in-a-bar fic

You know what it is, I've been so paralyzed by the weight of so many missed deadlines -- for schoolwork, fanwork, even housework -- that I've just been hanging on to the things I do have, waiting for the perfect time to finish them. Or even the perfect time to post what's already finished.

Take this Kankuro thing.

Series: Naruto
Title: The one where Kankuro gets drunk in a bar
Genre: Drunken Ranting
Note: Originally for this request (oh my god, that thread is two years old).

( No time like the present? )

Doesn't it have that just-dusted-off feel? orz

Dianna Wynne Jones, Conrad's Fate

British fantasy author Dianna Wynne Jones is the theme for the second issue of Maybe Sparrow and I just finished two DWJ paperbacks last week. Good timing. :D One was Unexpected Magic, a collection of early short stories which I have volunteered to review minus the novella Everard's Ride. The other was Conrad's Fate.

( Conrad's Fate )

And I said I'd do Unexpected Magic without Everard's Ride but I seem to have written an 800-word essay on Everard's Ride and it's passably formal-literary so can I ask a favor? Are any of you willing to look it over? Mostly for style and then I'll email the re-written review to Tin (more than a month early, shock gasp horror.)