From Twitter 09-01-2010

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A long time reader of my journal, cloudscudding, let me know about this, and so I'm sending the word out to you:

"The Circus of Brass and Bone" is a crowdfunded steampunk serial story that follows a circus traveling through the collapse of civilization. Read online or download the podcast to get your apocalypse fix!





All donations go to pay for my mother's cancer treatment and related costs. She was recently diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian and endometrial cancer, which is very serious but treatable--though the odds are not in her favor. She was working at a school in India at the time of diagnosis, so she doesn't have health insurance. My parents came back to the U.S. for treatment, so they've both given up their jobs. And they've spent much of their lives working to help others--working with farmers in Africa and teaching in India--so they don't really have anything in the way of a savings cushion. The situation is pretty dire.

I love the imagination here in taking a terrible situation and using it as an opportunity to make something creative. I know there are some steampunk fans on my friends list. And I hope there are even more Decrease Worldsuck people on it, too. So how about checking it out, making a donation and spreading the word...and drop an encouraging word to cloudscudding while you're at it. Thanks.

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