2025 is shaping up to be a banner year for me, story publication-wise. I’m on track for a total of twelve plus stories published this year, which easily eclipses my previous total of eight in 2017. Excluding stories published in my own magazine or anthologies, the figures are eleven and six, respectively. So, I’m pretty happy.

At the same time, as part of an upcoming anthology project (TRUNK: stories that took the long way), I took an overview look at my own submission figures, and they’re … dau...