The Week in Review • 29 September 2024

Welcome to The Week in Review, our Sunday wrap-up for those too busy to follow Stupefying Stories on a daily basis. This past week was a busy and complicated week for us, coming as it did at the tail-end of a busy and very complicated month, but we did manage to publish…

“The Island of Dolls” • by Sam W. Pisciotta

Published: 9/23/2024

It’s the place they go at the end, to learn what it means to forget, and to be forgotten. But not on this night: this night there is one last and special little girl who really needs them…

 

Six Questions for… Andrew Jensen

Published: 9/24/2024

We seem to be publishing a lot of Andrew Jensen’s stories lately, so this seemed like an opportune time to catch up with him and ask what he’s been up to.

 

 

Six Questions for… Cameron Cooper

Published: 9/26/2024

Cameron Cooper is a remarkably productive writer, with literally hundreds of books in print, so we decided to ask how she does it. This profile is just a small taste to whet your appetite. If you really want to know how she does it, take a deep dive into her website, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, and browse around her publishing company, Stories Rule Press.

 

“A Few Minutes in the Life of a Xenosociologist” • by Miriam Thor 

Published: 9/27/2024

First Contact, as seen from their point of view.

[Editor’s Note: What drew me to this story is that the Axorthians are the sort of aliens I hope we someday meet. They’re like nice Vogons. They didn’t come here to establish contact at all; they came here to use our Sun as the power source for an engineering project, but when they found life on the 3rd planet, they changed their plans.

[If they were like us, they’d be like, “Oops, sorry, didn’t notice you there. Look, our plans are too far along for us to change them now, so we’re just going to scoop up as many of you as we can catch and transplant you to Mars. Enough of you should survive that in a few generations you’ll have rebuilt your population.”]

“Making Friends at Twenty Thousand Leagues” • by Addison Smith

Published: 9/28/2024

“Why can’t people understand? I just want to be their friend!”