When you can't make their pain go away. [Your own, either.] Sales, subscribers, and shares all badly needed. Especially sales.

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Sunset last night, in Miskawki's colors.

He's having a rough time. One moment, he's adjusting; the next, something sends him flying back into the realization that Shade is gone. Today it was the sound of Wings starting the truck; he had to go in to the feed store for some supplies. That startled Miskwaki into the fear of being left again, and then he noticed that Gabriel's cows were all congregated at the south fence (which is fine), and somehow he seemed to think that that meant that maybe they had Shade with them and he started calling and crying again (which is notsomuch fine). So I went out to stay with him for a bit, reassure him that we are not leaving him; I also locked him back into the stable pen so he couldn't bolt, and then went and got him a carrot. He's eating a little alfalfa right now, so that's distracting him for the moment. And I can't make his pain go away.

Horses are not meant to be solitary creatures. 

It appears that we have more rain on the way, probably within the next half-hour to hour. Yesterday, we had a two-hour Internet outage, and then another one starting around 8:30 last night that wasn't resolved until after 10:00 this morning, so it's been a day already. It also puts me even more behind on my day-to-day stuff, on top of being extra behind from the time spent trying to save a horse and the amount that my injuries are slowing me down. To that end, I have to get back to it all, so it's just cut-and-paste from here on out. We very much, very badly need sales and new Patreon subscribers, and since this is early July, if you subscribe today, you won't be billed until August 1st. We have got to make some sales, though. Here are the links and a request to share them, because without those sales and subscribers, I honestly don't know how we get through this:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).

I had said that I'd really like to raise another $500 in subscriptions before July is out, just to have a little more to throw to the medical wolves that are constantly at my throat. Now, we've got a lot more that needs to be done, too, and I'm damned if I know how. The truck was more than enough to throw a wrench in the works (and that's still unfixed, for the most part, given that just the one part is more than $1,200, so . . . ), but this thing with Shade? Out of left field. And once you're in it, you have to keep going; there's no way out but forward, whatever the result. So please, please share the links. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and kind words and other help for Shade. I know she was better off for it, and I know she appreciated that.

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