Worst. Night. EVAR.

Last night. after my "triumph" with "Lagan"--finished the edit, sent it off--I had the single worst bout of insomnia yet. Up 'til 5:00 AM, and when I did fall asleep, I had horrifying dreams involving being part of a terrorist cell using our children as camouflage/human weapons. Then we were required to kill them. (This joins the spate of vampire dreams, zombie apocalypse dreams, serial killer dreams and Law & Order: SVU pedophile ring dreams I've had every other night this week--stupid when you wake up, but utterly convincing when you're inside them.)

One way or the other, I just freaking well got up, and I feel like total crap. This has to change.

In Slightly Better News...

As sovay points out, I did at least make the Honorable Mentions list for Ellen Datlow's upcoming The Best Horror of the Year 3, four times:

Files, Gemma “Copy Degradation,” Black Static 17, June/July.
Files, Gemma “Hell Friend,” Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Files, Gemma “The Underneath,” Shroud 8.
Files, Gemma “When I’m Armouring My Belly,” eVolVe.

...and since that's basically everything I published last year, aside from the novel, I'm well-satisfied.