Status Updates From Not So Much, Said the Cat

Pushkin the American / An Empty House With Many Doors / The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin: I'd just read these in The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two.

The House of Dreams: Reread. A Mongolian Wizard story, where Ritter is captured and must escape.

For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again / Libertarian Russia: I'd just read these in The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two.

Tawny Petticoats: A Darger and Surplus story--a silly fun thing.

Steadfast Castle: I'd just read this in The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two.

Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown / The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree / Goblin Lake: I'd just read these in The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two.

From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled…: I'd just read this in The Best of Michael Swanwick.

The Man in Grey / The Dala Horse / The Scarecrow's Boy / Passage of Earth: I'd just read these in The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two.

3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar: A short piece about stranded & doomed time travelers.

“Do you believe in free will?”

“I don’t know.” The car thought for a bit. “I’m programmed to serve and obey, and I don’t have the slightest desire to go against my programming. But sometimes it seems to me that I’d be happier if I could. Does that count?”

“I don’t mean for us. I mean for them. The humans.”