The Never-ending FAQ: introducing the F.O.S.S.

Welcome to this week’s installment of The Never-ending FAQ, the constantly evolving adjunct to our Submission Guidelines. If you have a question you’d like to ask about Stupefying Stories or Rampant Loon Press, feel free to post it as a comment here or to email it to our submissions address. I can’t guarantee we’ll post a public answer, but can promise every question we...

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The Odin Chronicles • Episode 48: “Night Walk” • by Eric Fomley

The stars were Shelley’s favorite part about living on Odin III. The night sky was brilliantly studded with countless twinkling orbs that swept over the horizon. She loved night walks along the edge of town in the cool air, especially on nights like tonight, when she and her fiancé, Father Luigi, were fighting again. This time, the argument was prompted when he canceled...

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“Sir Gregory and Sir Robert” • by Kai Delmas

The sword lashed out at Gregory’s head. He parried the blow with his own blade, following up with a slash across his foe’s chest. The soldier stumbled backward, legs buckling. A final thrust made him drop into the muck. Swords clashed, scraped against armor, hacked into shields. Heavy black smoke wafted over the vibrant blue of the sky, bringing the smell of burning...

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The Week in Review • 28 July 2024

Welcome to The Week in Review, our Sunday wrap-up for those too busy to follow Stupefying Stories on a daily basis. Before we get to the latest news, we’d like to direct you to three reminders.The Year in Review (so far)Four weeks ago we published The Year in Review (so far), a high-level overview of everything we’ve done thus far this year. Book releases; audio book releases;...

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The Odin Chronicles • Episode 47: “A Spark in the Dark” • by Travis Burnham

By the time Eva ‘Spark’ Rodriguez turned twenty-three, she’d lived on a string of mining planets. When she was young, a hover-transport had jackknifed in front of the family hovercar and, though she’d lost an arm—the doctors replaced it with a robotic limb—they couldn’t replace her parents. The robotic arm had gained her a special affinity for mechanical things and there...

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TOP 10: The 2024 Best of Stupefying Stories Showcase (so far)

Looking at the sales and readership numbers this morning, I became curious. What are the Top 10 stories we’ve published in SHOWCASE so far in 2024, and what if anything do they have in common? Ideally this list should be weighted in some way to account for older stories having had longer to rack up readership numbers, but going strictly by the total readership counts, our...

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