With my last blog being an update on my recent submissions, I have already received word on some of the submissions from the month. To date, The World of Myth and Worlds Within - Worlds Beyond have picked up material for publication. When you couple those acceptances with the ones from Revenant Magazine and Whispering Spirits , 2010 is off to an awesome first quarter. Now, if I can finish my epic, I would be set... The images remain so vivid Nightmares of hope consumed by remorse Amber eyes turning pale The black emerging from the gray A life shredded by the fabric that was Listening for the sounds of forgiveness In time, the remorse will turn to pain Emotions overtaken in solitude In loneliness Clarity arrives untouched A purity long forgotten by the masses Consumed by the greed entombed by the seven A knife slides across your throat The sadness empties from your veins You can live again Your baptism is complete Acceptance at last