February 2023
Thank you to everyone who submitted a story in January! We are now closed to submissions again until July 1st. This time around, we received 272 stories, and we look forward to reading them and discovering some new favorites. We do have some personal news to share. A long-time friend of ours passed away recently after a long illness, and her elderly cat, Belle, has come to live with us. Our best guess is that Belle is going on 16 or 17, though our friend didn't know how old she was when adopted from a shelter in 2008 or 2009 (she had had at least one litter of kittens before being spayed). Belle has some health issues that we're working on with her new vet, but they're not primarily age-related. She's very outgoing with humans, but not especially fond of other cats--Maxwell and Marie, for instance. For right now, she lives in our guest room and ventures out to explore the rest of the house once or twice a day, either with Maxwell and Marie kept out of areas where she mi
