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My short story "On The Last Afternoon" is up at Every Day Fiction today:

http://www.everydayfiction.com/on-the-last-afternoon-by-alex-shvartsman/

Not Asimov's, but still something

Lots of great news in here lately!

Congrats Rose (good luck on the hold!), Shelley (keep seeing your name on duotrope!), zanzjan (Asimov's wow!) and Alex (really enjoyed your story!) This thread is so inspiring.

Small bit of news for me--the first issue of Arcane is out! It contains my Hansel and Gretel story "Gingerbread and Ashes," which started as one of the prompts in the horror forum here. Pretty excited to see this one in print!

Nice story, Alex. Made me misty! I really love the thrill he got about parking illegally. Nice detail.

And jgold, I'll be reading your story as I planned to get a copy of Arcane. The whole thing looks awesome! In fact, I have a couple of things I need to buy, I'm behind on my reading material!

Thanks everbody, and congrats, guys!



Shelley

Wow, Alex - that story was crushing. I'll agree on the details throughout (the churches and bars, the parking), but my favorite part was the final lines.

alexshvartsman said:

My short story "On The Last Afternoon" is up at Every Day Fiction today:

http://www.everydayfiction.com/on-the-last-afternoon-by-alex-shvartsman/

Not Asimov's, but still something

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Oh! Just read it.

Great story. Very powerful. It made me think about what I'd do.

Congratulations.

Aww, thanks guys

This story has been rejected by a bunch of markets before it finally found a home at EDF and I'm really gratified that people are finding it worthwhile. Just goes to show you that rejection is meaningless, and you should keep submitting your work for as long as you have have some faith in it.

Camille (Editor-in-Chief at EDF) made some spot-on recommendations, which boiled down to cutting a couple of sentences. She was very cool about it, offering to publish the story as is if I didn't agree with the changes. Her suggestions made it a tighter and better story (even by cutting only a handful of words!).

Historical Lovecraft is sitting on the edge of my desk. My story's in it. I think I'm in a state closely resembling shock.

Congrats Alex and Nathaniel!

alexshvartsman said:

My short story "On The Last Afternoon" is up at Every Day Fiction today:

http://www.everydayfiction.com/on-the-last-afternoon-by-alex-shvartsman/

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I read "On the Last Afternoon" this morning as I was brushing my teeth (I usually read DSF and Every Day Fiction on my phone as I get ready in the morning) and it was so thought-provoking. I kept coming back to it during the day. Good story!

Congrats everyone! (I've just done this over in Rejectomancy...lost track of which thread was in which tab. Oops!)

Nathaniel Katz said:

Historical Lovecraft is sitting on the edge of my desk. My story's in it. I think I'm in a state closely resembling shock.

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Congrats! Is it your first printed story that you get to hold in your hands? It's a heady feeling, isn't it?

I'll be getting the ebook version, this is one I've been looking forward to and lost track of when it was coming, and I did note that your story is at the end of their free preview, just a few paragraphs. Enough to tease.

Looking forward to it, Nate!

Shelley

Yup, first printed story. I'm almost through the anthology now, and it's an incredibly weird feeling to enjoy a story and then realize that my story's in the same book.

Oh, and, just because things seem to like bunching up, today's also cool because my second review went up on Strange Horizons.

Congrats Alex and Nathaniel!

Nathaniel, how cool to have a book with your work in it. There's something about the physical presence of print material that makes everything seem real.

Nathaniel Katz said:

Yup, first printed story. I'm almost through the anthology now, and it's an incredibly weird feeling to enjoy a story and then realize that my story's in the same book.

Oh, and, just because things seem to like bunching up, today's also cool because my second review went up on Strange Horizons.

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That sounds wonderful.

Congratulations!

Nathaniel Katz said:

Yup, first printed story. I'm almost through the anthology now, and it's an incredibly weird feeling to enjoy a story and then realize that my story's in the same book.

Oh, and, just because things seem to like bunching up, today's also cool because my second review went up on Strange Horizons.

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Awesome!

Shelley

Alex, Jgold, Nate!!!

Well done, one and all!

Sold my Week6 story "Grandpa's Bluetooth" to Liquid Imagination today, and it should be online next month.

Write on,

How many copies did you buy for your friends/family?

Nathaniel Katz said:

Yup, first printed story. I'm almost through the anthology now, and it's an incredibly weird feeling to enjoy a story and then realize that my story's in the same book.

Oh, and, just because things seem to like bunching up, today's also cool because my second review went up on Strange Horizons.

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Is this your 100th this year Milo?

mfowler76 said:

Well done, one and all!

Sold my Week6 story "Grandpa's Bluetooth" to Liquid Imagination today, and it should be online next month.

Write on,

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mfowler76 said:

Well done, one and all!

Sold my Week6 story "Grandpa's Bluetooth" to Liquid Imagination today, and it should be online next month.

Write on,

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Congrats, Milo! Looking forward to it. Love the name.

Shelley