Kate Ellis’ story “Liarbird” was the grand prize winner of the 2015 Defenestrationism Short Fiction Contest, and her story “At the Sixes’ and the Sevens'” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Crossed Genres.

Gregor Hartmann wrote with great news: “Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful” (my “uber-nerd” story), which was critiqued here last summer, has been bought by F&SF. My thanks to Tom Greene, George Allen Miller, Gene Schiappa, Allan Dyen-Shapiro, and R.M. Smythe for their close readings and thoughtful suggestions.

L.J. Kendall wants us all to know that his book Wild Thing, Vol 1 of The Leeth Dossier,is now available on Amazon. You can find it here.

Tim Major’s story “Read/Write Head” will appeart in The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom anthology from Upper Rubber Boot Books, to be published in 2016.

Clint Spivey’s story “Kara’s Ares” appeared in the December 2015 issue of Fantasy Scroll Magazine.