Ekaterina and the Firebird

• Torn between stories. One has greater Awesome, other's more genre/gender-twisting and a better match for a higher-paying anthology. Ngg.
• Dear Strib: "Don't Like the Weather? Too Bad" headline = not encouraging!
• Small victories (now with zombies): ping.fm/wfcj5
• Torn between a Droid and a Nexus. Pretty sure I want a keyboard, but--shiny vs. shinier!

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Edited to add: I went with the better match story. Sorry, xcorvis, the zombies vs. dinosaurs story will remain unwritten. This will become "Ekaterina and the Firebird." It was a princess-and-the-dragon idea, and now it's a brandy-maker's-child-and-the-firebird story. Of course, with a trans-gendered protag, this may be a hard sell if the anthology *doesn't* take it. Did "The Radiator Burped" teach me nothing?