Jack of Harts

I just got another draft of an anthology I’m in. Sent to the authors for us to check things over and make certain they look good.

It makes me feel good to see one of my stories one step closer to getting published.

That’s pretty awesome.

The Day the Sky Fell is getting closer to getting in your grubby hands. I hope you are ready and waiting to get it and all the other fine stories in the anthology.

It’s a milestone for me. My first published story where the main character is a girl.

A very interesting thing is that this story was written for a completely different open call at a different company and they did not take it. I decided to send it in to this company for their open call, but my story was around 1k words too short for their guidelines. I thought about expanding the story, but then shook my head. The story is good as is. It’s just as long as it wants to be and not a word more. Making it longer would just make it longer. So I skipped it. And I did something I never do in short stories. I had a scene break, between two completely different scenes. Scenes separated not by years but by DECADES. And dozens of lightyears. It would be an epilogue in a novel. In a short story where it is a quarter of the word length all by itself? Ah, it’s a real part of the story. And it makes the whole story better.

Sometimes less is more.