Jake sez, "Speculative fiction writer Shira Lipkin is doing a blogathon this Saturday, July 26 – posting to her

LiveJournal every half hour for 24 hours to raise money for the Boston

Area Rape Crisis Center. This is her sixth year blogathonning, and she

writes spontaneous short fiction every year. It usually tends to have

an urban fantasy bent (as in fantasy in a city, not paranormal

romance), but this year, She's taking a distinctly SF angle on it. For

24 hours, She'll be in character as a xenoarchaeologist, trying to make

sense of precollapse Earth… with the help of over 50 artists who

donated "artifacts" to this project, including a few SF/F authors

themselves. All artifacts are being auctioned, with a story card."

Link, Link to auction items

(Thanks, Jake!)