Whale songs

That's what Grendel's Mother thinks J. S. Bach's G-minor fugue sounds like. Four-voiced whale songs speeded up with counterpoint and variations.

Signs of spring

Roadkill du jour, a muskrat on the road 'twixt here and the mall, whence I had gone in hopes of finding that F&SF issue for the writerly archives. No joy, Borders having already shelved the May mini-tome.