Best American Fantasy 2

I have it on excellent authority* that some of the work I edited and published last year will be holding a spot in the Best American Fantasy vol 2:

Michelle Richmond - "Logorrhea" (from LOGORRHEA)
Rachel Swirsky - "How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth"

(from Electric Velocipede #13)

The year's best reprints for LOGORRHEA keep coming, don't they? And I can't tell you how excited I am for Rachel's story to be reprinted. It means a lot to me when stuff out of my little magazine gets recognized. It's things like this that can make my whole week . . . or month.

I know I've spoken before on this, but it's one thing to enjoy the stories I select, and have fun laying out the issue, etc.. I should feel all those things. It would be ridiculous to go through all this effort for something I didn't enjoy. But to have an impartial third party validate your choices, to acknowledge that you're finding and publishing good work . . . that means a lot.

It doesn't hurt that Rachel is fantastically talented. I think we're going to see a lot more amazing fiction from Rachel in the future. I know that I have at least one poem from her in the near future, and I hope to see more work from her once I re-open to submissions.
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*I also was given permission to speak about this even though the final ToC is not official yet.