Week 21 & 22 — Year of Short Stories 2026

2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is for the weeks of May 25 – Jun 7. Stats Stories Finished: 2 Submissions Currently Out: 7 Submissions Total: 20 Rejections: 17 Acceptances: 0 Submissions and Responses Two weeks, and one form rejection for Incident at Pleasant Hills. All my stories are still on submission in at least one place, so I’m not sending out more at the moment. Goals and Results Last post, two weeks ago, I had a singular goal. Finish revising F-TIB. Well, it’s still not done, but some progress has been made. Firstly, the story has a new name! It’s now called T.I.M. After critiques came back, I did a lot of rethinking, which resulted in a whole new outline and roughly twice as many scenes. I’ve now written a couple thousand words of fresh or mostly fresh material toward that outline, and I’m approximately halfway done. It’s looking like the updated story will be a little more…