I’ve written six longer stories and six drabbles over the past 3 weeks — not too bad for the time span. Writing will slow down as work gets crazy again, but overall I feel happy with what I’ve produced and pleasantly tired.

Publications

A tiny piece “Pizza Night” came out in 50-Word Stories. People seem to like it  and it was even chosen as story of the week, which is pretty cool. I feel it packs quite a punch for such a short piece.

Acceptances 

A 1,500-word story (horror/humor)”Family Business” was accepted by Coffin Bell and I am excited see it appear in their January issue.

Two sci-fi drabbles accepted for the Drabbledark II anthology (Shacklebound Books).

Submissions

Two new long sci-fi flashes: Fingers crossed!

A new 500-word fairy tale: This is a new genre for me, so we’ll see. I think the story is pretty cool.

A drabble for the Biffy Microfiction Comp (theme “weather”) that a Twitter friend is judging and she tagged me and a few other folks to enter. Not holding my breath for this one, I seriously doubt it’s winning material, but it’s a solid drabble and, in the likely event that it goes nowhere in this comp, it could find a home someplace nice and quiet.

Still waiting:

A sci-fi micro entered in the 53-word story competition (July theme: UFOs) in a fun three-way submission pact with two Twitter buddies. We should’ve heard the results by now, but what can you do.

A fantasy drabble to 101 Fiction (September theme: werewolves and other werethings). I like this one a lot. I hope it makes the cut.

A new dark-fiction/magical realism story to The Molotov Cocktail “Flash Beast” contest. It’s a strong piece, one of the best if not the best I’ve ever written, but the competition is really stiff. I will be disappointed if the story doesn’t crack top 10, but, on the upside, it’s a piece I know will appear somewhere awesome.

Three funny reprint entries in To Hull and Back humorous short story competition. Shortlist will be out in September.

Plans 

To send something to Ellipsis Zine 4 (dark theme, deadline 9/6) and to Ginger Collect (deadline 9/8) in a buddy-system pact with a Twitter friend.

I seem to do a lot of stuff because of Twitter friends. Hmmm. Then again, as far as peer influence goes, writing short fiction doesn’t sounds too bad.