I have won an Honorable Mention Award for Short Fiction from the Association for Mormon Letters for my short story "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2003). I am invited to attend the annual awards banquet Saturday, March 6th, at the main branch of the Salt Lake Public Library.

I am pleased and honored. Startled and flabbergasted and puzzled and delighted and amused are also words that leap to mind.

(Didn't know whether to use the devil or Snoopy icon. Finally decided Snoopy was the more appropriate.)