Sybil’s Garage will be closing to submissions for our seventh issue on April 12th.  Please make sure to send us your submissions on or before that date.

Here are the Sybil’s Garage submission stats so far: We have received 361 stories, 55 poems We have rejected 234 stories, 25 poems Average response time: 12 days for stories, 15 days for poems Please be on the lookout for a submissions closing date sometime in April.  I will make an official announcement soon.

Just a quick update on Sybil’s Garage this afternoon.  Here are the stats so far: We have received 293 stories, 46 poems We have rejected 180 stories, 20 poems Average response time: 9 days for stories, 12 days for poems I have also received informal word that two poems from Sybil’s have been nominated for Rhysling Awards.  As to which poems, I’m trying to find out. A little behind on slush, but I hope to catch up a little today and this evening.

Here’s what’s going on in the Sybil’s Garage queue as of this morning: We have received 191 stories, 30 poems We have rejected 89 stories, 11 poems Average response time: 7 days for stories, 6 days for poems Writers group tonight for me, so I’m a little behind on my queue, but I hope to catch up in the next day or so.

That’s what the sky’s like today: gray, like TV tuned to a dead channel.  I was up early today in the pre-dawn light, and now it’s coming on 10 a.m. and doesn’t feel any lighter.  Rain then, I suspect, and lots of it.  Well, these types of days are conducive to work anyway. Last week I worked on a non-fiction piece and showed it to Mercurio, who said that if I try to sell it as fiction, people will say it’s unbelievable.  But it works as a memoir.  The story is …