December 2025
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! We also finished selecting stories from our July submission window, a day ahead of our self-imposed deadline of November 30th. If you sent us a story and haven't heard from us, you should query ASAP (after checking your email inbox and junk folders, of course). Since our monthly Patreon income has gone back up, we were able to accept seven stories. This means we'll be publishing one on the 4th Monday of each month, plus bonus stories on the 2nd Monday for each of January and April. A very generous subscriber has temporarily increased their monthly contribution, and we're committed to always doing more for our readers and authors when that happens. It was a good time to have some additional funding, it turns out, because July was a record month for us. We received 304 submissions. Of those, eighteen ended up on our short list of stories that we both really liked and that fit our submission guidelines, and from those eighteen, ...
