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The Editorial Fray

          The market report for this issue of The Pedestal Magazine called for speculative flash fiction to a thousand words, defining speculative as including science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and experimental. Coincidentally, we seem to have covered all those bases in the stories that follow. We’ll let the reader decide which is which.

          We’ve both edited a number of publications before, though never jointly. In one significant sense, this was the most difficult editorial task either one of us has faced. With other publications, we were used to accepting roughly five to ten percent of the work received. For this issue of The Pedestal Magazine, we received over six hundred submissions, of which we had room for only seven stories, a little over one percent. Although our tastes in fiction overlap, they are not identical, and making our selections from a surfeit of excellent stories proved somewhat difficult. We are thankful that we broke only one chair and two lamps, and sustained no serious injuries, in the final decision process. We hope you enjoy our choices with considerably less travail.

          Thanks go to John Amen for giving us this opportunity to enter the editorial fray.

Bruce Boston and Marge Simon

 

Three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Bruce Boston has published forty-five books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. For more information, visit his website at www.bruceboston.com.










Marge Simon edits Star*Line, the journal of the SF Poetry Association. She received a Bram Stoker Award in 2008 and has published two flash fiction collections: Like Birds in the Rain and Christina's World. You can visit her website at www.margesimon.com.
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