Comments on: Saving the Gleeful Horse http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html K.J. Bishop's home on the web Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:15:42 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kjbishop http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html/comment-page-1#comment-21611 kjbishop Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:15:35 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2537#comment-21611 Squee! <3 So glad you liked it, and that you found something resonant in the treasure exchange. I tend not to know what to think about most things I write, but always hope it will work for some readers at some level. It was one of those stories where the characters just turned up and told me their tale. May motley dreams fly your way! Squee! <3 So glad you liked it, and that you found something resonant in the treasure exchange. I tend not to know what to think about most things I write, but always hope it will work for some readers at some level. It was one of those stories where the characters just turned up and told me their tale.

May motley dreams fly your way!

]]> By: Emera http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html/comment-page-1#comment-21610 Emera Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:15:18 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2537#comment-21610 I just finished reading it, and whispered, "That is weird as fuck" to myself. I LOVE IT. :D I mean, what. A vacuously (literally) cheerful piñata being fed sparkly child souls by a giant river-scavenging man in the form of smoke? YES. I am currently reveling in the weird, and I hope I have dreams this motley and excellent tonight. And there's something so unsettling and darkly resonant about the various exchanges of the "treasures," and the way the Grinning Horse urban legend gets passed on like a secondary contagion. I don't know what to think about all of it (in a good way). It also reminded me of Jack Vance-y stuff, oddly enough. I think it's the off-kilter folkloric feel, the sense that you just got pushed into the middle of a mythological world in transition. Also, hurrah for collection progress! I just finished reading it, and whispered, “That is weird as fuck” to myself. I LOVE IT. :D I mean, what. A vacuously (literally) cheerful piñata being fed sparkly child souls by a giant river-scavenging man in the form of smoke? YES. I am currently reveling in the weird, and I hope I have dreams this motley and excellent tonight. And there’s something so unsettling and darkly resonant about the various exchanges of the “treasures,” and the way the Grinning Horse urban legend gets passed on like a secondary contagion. I don’t know what to think about all of it (in a good way).

It also reminded me of Jack Vance-y stuff, oddly enough. I think it’s the off-kilter folkloric feel, the sense that you just got pushed into the middle of a mythological world in transition.

Also, hurrah for collection progress!

]]> By: kjbishop http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html/comment-page-1#comment-21573 kjbishop Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:37:54 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2537#comment-21573 Caitlyn - and I nearly made the white another colour, too! Colin - I think he'd be happy as a tattoo. Caitlyn – and I nearly made the white another colour, too!

Colin – I think he’d be happy as a tattoo.

]]> By: Colin http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html/comment-page-1#comment-21570 Colin Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:02:37 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2537#comment-21570 I can just see that image as a back tattoo on someone I can just see that image as a back tattoo on someone

]]> By: Caitlyn http://kjbishop.net/2010/03/22/saving-the-gleeful-horse.html/comment-page-1#comment-21569 Caitlyn Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:04:37 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2537#comment-21569 I need to take more LSD before I look at that picture again. The colours, man, the colours! I need to take more LSD before I look at that picture again. The colours, man, the colours!

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