Keeping things real again: From October 4 through November 3, I had 24 submissions and collected 21 rejections. However, I did manage to write 1 new story and hope to increase this pace somehow.

One of my favorite Mars stories, "The Perfect Red Rose" is now live at Story Sanctum. You can read it for free at: www.storysanctum.org/post/the-per... and check out Story Sanctum at: www.storysanctum.org

Yay! I am unbelievably happy. My story "Arean Afterlife" is online in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, Issue October, 2025, www.penumbric.com/currentissue... You can read it for free at: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

And keeping things real: From September 4 through October 3, I had 25 submissions and collected 21 rejections and 2 acceptances. Onward.

I'm so happy to have my story "Watering the Family Tree", which takes place in Freiburg, published in The Pink Hydra, volume 2, issue 2. You can read the story for free at www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022... and check out The Pink Hydra at www.thepinkhydra.com

I am thrilled to have my story "Abduction" published in Black Cat Weekly, Issue 211, available in the Black Cat Weekly shop and online bookstores. blackcatweekly.com/b/dMLVi "Abduction" was inspired by Richard Zahlten's book "Meine Schwester starb in Auschwitz" (My Sister Died in Auschwitz)

Part 7, the last installment, of "Semester of Solitude" is now up and ready to read at The Daily Tomorrow, dailytomorrow.substack.com/semester-of-... And the full story is available at: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

And now Part Six of "Semester of Solitude" is available to read at The Daily Tomorrow, dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

Part 5 of "Semester of Solitude" is now ready to read at The Daily Tomorrow, dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

My brother Mark Walker got another excellent and well-deserved review of his newest book (the review is behind a paywall) www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Part 4 of "Semester of Solitude" is now up at The Daily Tomorrow: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

"Semester of Solitude" Part 3 is now up at The Daily Tomorrow: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

Part Two of "Semester of Solitude" is up at The Daily Tomorrow: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o...

I am so happy to have my story "Semester of Solitude" published in The Daily Tomorrow. One segment of the story will appear each day, starting today with Part One, which you can read for free: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/semester-o... In addition, subscribers get my "afterword" to the story.

My sister Nancy Walker Claflin's podcast about the Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs is as fascinating as it is important, www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2D6...

I'm overjoyed to see my story "Off We Go" published and even the editor's choice at Freedom Fiction Journal, where you can read it for free. www.freedomfiction.com www.freedomfiction.com/2025/08/off-...

Dad died on August 25, 2008. We miss him so much. This picture is from 1990 when Mother and Dad visited us in Neustadt.

I'm so happy to report that my story "Felicità" is the cover story in the August 18, 2025 issue of Piker Press, www.pikerpress.com/article.php?...

Franz and I were married on August 17, 1974 (51 years ago!) in St. Peter's Church in Sabula, Iowa. We're grateful for the years together. This is the ski jump here in Neustadt.

I finally updated my blog with information on publications so far. maryjorabe.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/p...

In this short clip from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, my brother Mark has come comments from his research. In diesem kurzen Ausschnitt vom Deutschen Museum in München redet mein Bruder Mark über seine Forschung. www.ardmediathek.de/video/abends...

My brother Mark Walker's book in English and German: Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima Hitlers Atombombe: Geschichte, Legende und das Erbe von Nationalsozialismus und Hiroshima A Süddeutsche Zeitung review www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ado...

I am happy beyond words to have my story "Do the Math" published in Cosmic Quest, now available in electronic and print formats at all your favorite online stores. Proceeds from the anthology go to The Planetary Society. You can read my story for free at www.strangequarkpress.org/do-the-math-...

Epic Echoes, always available online, is now also in print format and available at epicechoesmag.com/magazine My story "Hiram's Sculptures" is in Volume 2.

I'm excessively happy to have my story "At the Top of the Martian World" published in Bright Mirror A Utopian Science Fiction Anthology, a project of the wonderful Oddity Prodigy Productions, www.oddityprodigy.com and also available at all your favorite online bookstores.

Happy Day! I am so thrilled to have my story "Anatomical Anomaly or Conduit?" included in "Amazing Stories: Best of 2024", now available at all your favorite online bookstores, or via books2read.com/u/bax1rx

I'm overjoyed that my story "Galaxy Song Contest" is online at Amazing Stories, amazingstories.com/.../galaxy-s... Go to Amazing Stories online for wonderful stories: amazingstories.com The Eurovision Song Contest takes place this year in Basel, Switzerlabnd, with the final round on May 17, 2025.

My story "Rules Must Be Obeyed", published in Möbius Blvd, Issue 18, April 2025, is now also available in Möbius Blvd, Issue 19, May 2025 in all your favorite online bookstores, at amazon.com Mobius Blvd : www.amazon.com/Mobius-Blvd-... and Möbius Blvd at amazon.de www.amazon.de/Mobius-Blvd-...

My entirely fictitious story "Death Arranged for the Archbishop" (spoiler: the archbishop survives) is now available in Crimeucopia: Chicka-Chicka Boomba! at all your favorite online bookstores like amazon.com: www.amazon.com/Crimeucopia-... and amazon.de: www.amazon.de/Crimeucopia-...

I'm overjoyed that Fred the Opossum again has found a home. My story "Fred and Frieda" appears in the current (Issue 23, April 15, 2025) of Zooscape, zooscape-zine.com/fred-and-fri... Zooscape is a marvelous e-zine featuring stories about furry friends. zooscape-zine.com

I am overjoyed to have my story "False Fractal" included in this wonderful anthology, Forgetting Something?: Humorous Tales About Aliens, available at all your favorite online bookstores in digital and print formats. In "False Fractals" I offer a logical speculation about Jimmy Hoffa's fate.

I am blissfully happy to have my story "A Walk in the Little Woods" appear in the April-June '25 issue of The Lorelei Signal, a magnificent e-zine. You can read it for free at: www.loreleisignal.com/a-walk-in-th...

I am deliriously happy to have "Rules Must Be Obeyed" published in the wonderful Möbius Blvd, Issue 18, April 2025! A conscientious civil servant in Kirchzarten has to deal with space aliens who want to reside there. The magazine is available in digital and print formats in online bookstores.

The Pink Hydra is fundraising so we can publish 3 more issues this year. Most of this money is for author compensation. Support the smallest of indie SFF freezines with a donation: ko-fi.com/thepinkhydra...

The newest number of Electric Spec is up and available to read with many wonderful stories. My story "Hildegard's Children" (with Hildegard of Bingen, Vikings, Bermuda Triangle, and Atlantis) is also at the editors's corner of Electric Spec. www.electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...

I don't write many book reviews, but this book is just too good not to review. You can read my review on my blog: maryjorabe.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/a-brilliantly-scary-book/

And more thank yous!! @gerrileen.bsky.social, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Deborah Sheldon, Kate M Tyte, @maryjorabe.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

I am absolutely overjoyed to have my story "How Fred the Opossum Mobilized the Microbes and Saved the Universe" published (as a reprint after its original publication in Pulphouse, Issue 18) in Zooscape, Issue 21! zooscape-zine.com/fred-the-opo...

I am unbelievably happy to have my story "The Greatest Show on Mars" published in the wonderful Black Cat Weekly, Issue #175, available at blackcatweekly.com/b/QrPIs and at all your favorite online bookstores.

I can't think of a better way to start the new year. My story "Be Careful What You Wish For..." (working title was "Take Me Home, Robot Roads") is published online in Issue 30 at Four Star Stories, 4starstories.com/story_4.htm

I am happy beyond words to have my story "Advent, Advent" published in Black Cat weekly! blackcatweekly.com/b/feyUM?fbcl...

I'm overjoyed to have my story "Libby's Red Rover" among those to be published in the Hidden Villains: Criminals anthology. There is a Kickstarter for the anthology up and running, and already funded! The project is definitely worth checking out www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

Words truly can't express how unbelievably happy I am to have my story "Merry Microbes" published in Pulphouse, Issue 36. In "Merry Microbes", my Martian microbes find a way to appreciate Earthie Christmas customs. I am also absolutely awed by the company I keep in this issue.