Happy Beltane!

[sawyl]

Not just beltane, but May Day. And a beautiful one at that:

"It's a beautiful May Day," Ofglen says. I feel rather than see her head turn towards me, waiting for a reply.

"Yes," I say. "Praise be," I add as afterthought. Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school. I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. It was Luke who told me about Mayday though. Mayday, Mayday, for pilots whose planes had been hit, and ships — was it ships too? — at sea. Maybe it was SOS for ships. I wish I could look it up. And it was something from Beethoven, for the beginning of the victory, in one of those wars.

In unrelated news, or possibly related if you can follow the way my convoluted mind works, I notice that Nick Sagan's new novel Everfree is due to be published in the US later this month. Maybe something for Toronto...