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Two More Weathering Youth Stories (with long titles)

| March 31, 2026

Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “The Dark Forest Takes” […]

Three More Stories!

| August 13, 2020

I’ve got three stories out recently. The first is a podcast version of a story previously published at Intrinsick, “Dakota Travis, Saurallero Extraordinaire,” which the Manawaker Flash Fiction Podcast posted in late July. In case you always wanted to have a slightly humorous obituary read to you, here’s your chance. The second is a new […]

September 2019 Recap

| October 1, 2019

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 146 Acceptances received: 8 Rejections received: 81 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 82 New Submissions: 29 Stories out at the end of the month: 164 September was a busy month for acceptances, finishing new things, and getting things out the door. Surprisingly slow on the […]