I threw my hat into the Guest Author
Ficlet ring. Have a look--it's a neat site that features very short fiction. You can enjoy the snips on their own, and add to them if you wish. Heard about this through scalzi, who is busier than any three people I know.

Finished BLINDSIGHT last night. Not a happy book. Much by way of the Shiny, and it worked for me. At times, the post-humans seemed as alien as the aliens, which were the best aliens I had ever read. At times, the Shiny got in the way of the plot. But the whole package was compelling enough to keep me reading, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for the vast majority of books I've read in the last year.