Though I never even reported on Stuart’s response to my September query, I’ve now finished the story in question, titled it ‘Oenocide’ and submitted it to Stuart’s ‘Gastronomicon II‘ speculative fiction cookbook, a collection of real recipes accompanied by science fiction and fantasy stories. And although I had a whopping two months to write a story of 1,000 words or less, I ended up doing all the work last weekend and Monday, and it was only Stuart’s leniency taht prevented me from being too late. (Or rather, I was in fact too late for the November 13 deadline, but Stuart was kind enough to accept my excuse of time zone confusion and space-time distortion.) I hope he likes it and takes if for GII, but it’s a story in which people drink wine, get murdered, and speak in thick English accents; so what’s not to like?