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Short Story Round-Up #92
In November, I suggested twenty-one (21) stories from twenty (20) authors at seventeen (17) magazines. There’s so many good stories and poetry in SFF/H coming out all the time, and I’m still trying to catch up with some favorite magazines from when I started recommending online almost four (4) years ago. I hope you enjoy…
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Short Story Round-Up #91
It’s the first Monday of the month and here I am yet again with another short story round-up summarizing the stories I recommended throughout October. In October I recommended twenty-three (23) short stories and poems. Lots of spooky stuff, but also some not-so-spooky. Small Wonders published: The Stars at the End of All Things by…
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Short Story Round-Up #90
In September, I recommended twenty-one (21) stories and poems by eighteen (18) authors at fourteen (14) magazines on weekdays. I went on a couple reading binges for both magazines and authors. Sometimes you can tell who I have subscriptions to. On weekends, I sometimes recommended stories I’ve suggested in the past. Those are in past…
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The Story of “Gnashing”
This blog post was initially posted on October 5, 2022 on the previous Adria Bailton website. The 2023 move broke images. It is being reposted with some edits and updates. Gnashing Teeth from the Deep and the Children Hang on Tight – A Checklist On the this three year anniversary of the publication of my…
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Reading Reflection for Third Quarter 2024
We are now 3/4 of the way through the year, and I’m back with an update to my novel-length reading goals. And I have made excellent reading progress! I’ve completed 34 books total this year, with eleven (11) books in the last 3 months. I’m ahead of my reading goal by seven (7) books! I…
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Short Story Round-Up #89
In August, I suggested twenty-two (22) stories by twenty (20) different authors at fifteen (15) different magazines on weekdays. I also began suggesting throwback stories, ie stories I’ve recommended in past years, on weekends. I won’t be including the stories I’ve already recommended before in my round-ups. You can scroll through all previous 88 Short…
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2024 Goal Update #2
After posting my first goal update for the year, I realized that I had started my goal update way ahead of time and then never included that information. So, I’m dipping back a little in this update. Short Stories Submission Goals By the posting of this blog post, my goal was to have 81 submissions…
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Short Story Round-Up #88
In July, I suggested twenty-three (23) stories from fifteen (15) different magazines, all from different authors. I hope you enjoy these stories. Hold the Sea Inside by Erin Keating was published at Diabolical Plots in June.A story about moving away from home and how we do everything we can to get back. Loved the imagery…
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Reading Reflection for 2nd Quarter 2024
We are half-way through the year and it’s time to update my novel-length reading goals. After coming out of a long reading slump, I kept my goal something I could increase as a goal from last year, but reachable if I fell off my numbers from last year. So far, I’ve read 23 books this…
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Short Story Round-Up #87
I suggested twenty (20) short stories and poems in the month of June on BlueSky and Wandering Shop on Mastodon. Five of them were suggested on my TikTok as well. If you want to see one every day, follow me at those places. Please enjoy these stories! Inner Worlds published: The Memory, by Hussain Ayoub…