I have friends! Somehow. But I am not gaming with them because Dave is still full of germs and Jeremy is slightly under the weather. Not that I have any brilliant ideas for what we should game. I could not even come up with an idea for a 4-hour con game. Perhaps it is time to give up entirely.

Read: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You (Scotto Moore): A music blogger discovers a band that plays the most amazing music ever. It is straight downhill at ever-increasing speed and weirdness from there.

Read: Unbreakable (Mira Grant): This is not actually Madoka Magica fanfic, but that’s about where it is in terms of genre. The last two surviving magical girls in a world that no longer needs them find out the real story behind the fluffy magical advisors and improbably-named enemies.

Written: 290 words, for 1283 this week and 13753 in nine weeks. Tomorrow is the last week of the challenge.