Busy busy busy, erg. So here’s a couple pix (taken from my new-but-crappy camera phone) of Hobkin as a mouse pad. Stuff on My Skunk! And yes, an optical mouse will work atop a skunk . . . sorta.
I’m going straight to hell, aren’t I?
Writing Stuff
Published:
– My August Writing for Young Readers column is now up: “An Interview with Tansy Rayner Roberts of Shiny.”
New Words:
– 300 words on short story WiP, “Hollow.”
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Sooooo cute. Hobkin is so adorable…and obviously tolerant to boot.
My oldest son had an up close and personal experience with a wild skunk the other night when he was taking out the trash. Seems that the little guy (the skunk…not my son) was going through garbage people had left beside the dumpster, which was full.
My son said the little fellow turned around to look at him and sniffed him and then went right back to digging in the trash without so much as a care in the world.
My son was VERY relieved…to say the least.
Just begging to be an art print titled “Skunk, with Mouse”
*hee hee*
You know, really, the skunk ought to be doing something to earn his keep…
That’s just insanely cute.
::keels over from cute attack:: WAAAH!!
Oh, my gosh!! :dies of cuteness: Skunk mouse pad!!
LOL!
I’m glad I didn’t have anything in my mouth, or I would have spit all over my keyboard!
You are so deliciously wicked. 😉
Cute skunk. Does he appear in any of your stories? I still remember liking your story about the badger.
Daniel
I’m flattered you remember my badger story!
Yes, actually, Hobkin has made an appearance or otherwise inspired quite a few of my stories. The icon of this post is part of the illustration (by Kelly Dyson) from “Running on Two Legs,” which was published by The 3rd Alternative. He’s also the inspiration for Hobs in “The Storyteller’s Wife” and the Devil in “The Devil and Mrs. Comstock’s Snickerdoodles” (both in Realms of Fantasy), the Taylups in “A Parade of Taylups” (Aberrant Dreams), and Cosith in “Spring Arrives on a Hob’s Tail” (Story Station). And his mischievous personality has shaded a lot of my anthropomorphic animal characters, including the badger in the one you read.
I can definitely see why there are so many cat stories out and about with so many writers having cat companions. My fuzzy muse just happens to be a skunk.
Wow, maybe I need to get a pet.
I do have a houseplant. I never put him into a story, but a friend of mine did. Really.
Daniel
Awwww, more cute wittle Hobkin pics!
Y’know. If I tried that with my cat, she’d probably tear my arm off.
It was very important that he was napping. I’d never have gotten away with such indignities upon a wakeful skunk!