My short story, STILL LIFE WITH BOOBS, is three recommendations away from getting on the preliminary ballot for the 2005 Nebula Awards. My friend Catherine asked if I could make it available online and the easiest way to do that seems to be to paste the whole puppy into a journal entry right here.

That'll be my next post. But first, if you are a SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) member, and you'd like to recommend my story or anyone else's, here's three ways you can do that:

• On the SFWA website at http://www.sfwa.org/private/nar/neb_recs_form.html

• By email to nar@sfwa.org

• By snail mail to Brook West, NAR Editor, P.O. Box 18481, Salt Lake City, UT 84118-0481 (please include your signature)

When making a recommendation, please include your full name and address, the name of the work, the author, the magazine, the month and year of publication, and the category for which you are recommending the work.

So here it is, my Nebula nominated short story, which appeared in the Summer '05 issue of Talebones Magazine:

Still Life with Boobs
by Anne Harris

She could no longer ignore the fact that her breasts were going out at night without her. Gwen stood in front of the bathroom mirror and gave George and Gracie a long hard stare. They bore marks she knew they had not acquired in her presence; scratches, smears of dirt and other, less identifiable substances.

"Shit," she swore under her breath. "What do you want from me?" But George and Gracie just stared back at her innocently with their cold-puckering nipples, like two children caught making mud pies in their Sunday clothes.

They hadn't looked so innocent when she'd caught up with them last night in the back room of Menzer's Art Supply.
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