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July 2023 Recap

| August 3, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 50 (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 26 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 The numbers are a bit all over the place this month, though the overall top and bottom line seem […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To: August 2023 Edition

| August 2, 2023

Reading: I’ve spent most of the last month reading a lot of flash fiction for critiques, but also a few novels for reviews. Watching: It’s mostly been Queendom Puzzle, but we also finally watched Quantumania and have started on season 3 of The Witcher. Listening To: Mostly Queendom Puzzle, though there have been a few new songs […]

“Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged” in Wreathed in Steam

| August 1, 2023

“Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged” was inspired by seeing images of sprite lightning, which is REALLY wild looking. I decided to write about an airship with cloud divers who went after sprite lightning as a power source, which turned into this story. It was written as a flash fiction piece, which meant […]