SHOWCASE #15 RELEASED

The changes announced in SHOWCASE #14 are already paying off, as SHOWCASE #15 rolls out right on schedule this week. If you're looking for the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, now ready for your reading pleasure at this link:

StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

 This week featuring:

• “Best in Show,” by Robert Lowell Russell
• “On the Pond,” by Jake Doyle 
• “The Wiser of Oz,” by Jez Patterson
• “Four Corners of the Earth,” by Sandi Reed-Chan

Enjoy!
~brb

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Stupefying Stories is temporarily closing to new submissions

Effective March 1, 2014, STUPEFYING STORIES will be closed to unsolicited submissions until June 1, 2014.

The short explanation is that the volume of new submissions we're receiving is interfering with our ability to release new books on schedule. For a more complete explanation, see the editorial in SHOWCASE #14.

If this works as expected, we will again be closed to unsolicited submissions from October 1, 2014, to December 31, 2014, and thereafter be on a three-months-on/three-months-off reading schedule.

Please note that this change does not affect STRAEON, which has a separate submissions queue and reading schedule. 

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SHOWCASE #14 ESCAPES!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

This week featuring:

• “Advances,” by Liz Colter
• “The Collections Agent,” by A. G. Carpenter 
• “How Love Works,” by Jamie Lackey
• “Stanley P. Strauss, Destroyer of the Universe,” by Samuel Marzioli
• Editorial: And we're back...again, by Bruce Bethke

ATTENTION, WRITERS. Beginning March 1, 2014, Stupefying Stories will be closed to unsolicited submissions until June 1, 2014. For the explanation of why we're doing this, please read the editorial in SHOWCASE #14. 

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SHOWCASE #13 ESCAPES!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

This week featuring:

• “Cold Beyond White,” by Beth Cato
• “Above the Ice,” by Matthew Timmins 
• “Searching for Home,” by Lance J. Mushung
• “The End,” by Scott M. Davis
• 2014: The Changes Ahead, by Bruce Bethke

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SHOWCASE #12 IS RELEASED

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

This week featuring:

• “Special Delivery,” by Peter Wood
• “The Cubes,” by Taylor Vaughan 
• “Rheum,” by Parker Lee
• “Caveat Emptor,” by Steve Coate
• Junk Food Cinema, by Badger & Vole
• 2013: The Year in Pre-Review, by Bruce Bethke

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SHOWCASE #11 ESCAPES!

Sometimes a project is released, and other times, it escapes. This one is definitely more of an "escape," and deserving of front-page top-of-the-fold coverage. Ergo, imagine Paul Winchell reading:

SHOWCASE #11 ESCAPES! 

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

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SHOWCASE #10 IS LIVE!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “An Indelible Feast,” by Alex Shvartsman
• “Stanhope's Finest,” by Natalie J E Potts
• “Allegory at Table Seven,” by Jarod K. Anderson

Plus Badger & Vole Review “Thor: The Dark World,” and we preview a new writers-on-writing feature we're thinking of adding, “Learning Experiences.” Check it out!

Enjoy,
~brb

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SHOWCASE #9 IS LIVE!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye,” by Carly Berg
• “Tempora Mutantur,” by Anatoly Belilovsky
• “White,” by Jennifer Davis
• “Happily Ever After,” by Edward Ahern
• “Lessons Learned From My Fifth Attempt to Conquer the World,” by Jason Andrew

Plus:

• Badger & Vole Review “Ender's Game”
• “Armistice Day” by Bruce Bethke

Enjoy!
~brb

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Book Release: TWO, The 2nd Annual Horror Special

STUPEFYING STORIES is thrilled (and more than just a little relieved) to announce the release of:

TWO is one of the biggest and best collections of horror stories we've ever assembled, containing sixteen fresh and exciting new tales of ghosties and ghoulies, vampires and zombies, monsters and mayhem, and things that go bump in the night! Edited by Philip K. Dick Award-winner Bruce Bethke, TWO features:

• "Second to Last Stop" by Evan Dicken
• "Cabrón" by Jóse Iriarte
• "Blood and Water" by Rose Blackthorn
• "Gris-Gris for a Mal Pris" by Rebecca Roland
• "Zombie Angst, or How to Pair Human Brains With a Good Chianti" by Stone Showers
• "Wall" by Yukimi Ogawa
• "A is for Android" by Holly A. Cave
• "The Things That Perish Along The Way" by Keith Rosson
• "Choice" by Shona Snowden
• "Offworld" by Anton Sim
• "An Incident in Cain's Mark" by L. Joseph Shosty
• "Professor Pandemonium's Train of Terror" by Simon Kewin
• "It Came From Hell And Smashed The Angels" by Gregor Xane
• "The Waiting Line (Many Elbows)" by Leah Thomas
• "The Revenge of Oscar Wilde" by Sean Eads
• "Eulogy to be Given by Whoever's Still Sober" by Nicole Cushing
 

Now available for the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader App at these links.

US    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
UK    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Germany    https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
France    https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Spain    https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Italy    https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Japan    https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
India    https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Canada    https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Brazil    https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00GFCQOLQ
Mexico    https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B00GFCQOLQ

(Don't have a Kindle? Then get the free Kindle Reader App for your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac, or use the free Kindle Cloud Reader to read it instantly in your browser!)


More links coming soon!

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SHOWCASE #8 RELEASED!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “Soft Magic” by Paul DesCombaz
• “The All-Seeing Ring” by Kelda Crich
• “The Calling Card” by Eric J. Guignard
• “The Blue Ridge Wreath” by Georgia Ruth

Plus:

• Badger & Vole Review “Marvel's Agents of SHIELD”
• “Family Matters” by Bruce Bethke

Enjoy!
~brb

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SHOWCASE #7 RELEASED!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “Reckoning” by David Steffen
• “Bacco Joe” by K.B Sluss
• “In Vino Veritas” by Anatoly Belilovsky
• “A Hole” by Jason Armstrong

Plus:

• “Why SHOWCASE?” by Bruce Bethke
• “Q&A: About SHOWCASE”
• “New Release Calendar”

Enjoy!
~brb

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SHOWCASE #6 RELEASED!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “The Storyteller” by Alex Shvartsman
• “Here There Be Monsters?” by Robert Lowell Russell
• “Oath” by Guy Stewart
• “Not Taken” by Kit Yona

Plus:

• “On Writing Oath” by Guy Stewart
• “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” by Bruce Bethke
• “Q&A: About SHOWCASE”
• “New Release Calendar”

And of course:

•  Badger & Vole (almost) Review: The World's End

Enjoy!
~brb

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SHOWCASE #5 RELEASED!

For the latest news, latest download links, and of course, FREE STORIES, check out our (usually) weekly companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com/index.html

This week featuring:

• “The Piano is a Percussion Instrument,” by Maude Larke
• “Timeless Bore,” by Peter Wood
• “After the Kaiju Attack,” by John Zaharick
• “Space Program,” by Lance J. Mushung
• “The Wishing Hour,” by Romie Stott

And of course:

•  Badger & Vole Review: Pacific Rim

Enjoy!
~brb

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SHOWCASE #4 IS ONLINE!

For the latest news, latest download links, and of course, FREE STORIES, check out our (usually) weekly companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link:

http://www.stupefyingstoriesshowcase.com/index.html

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STUPEFYING STORIES: JULY 2013 ISSUE RELEASED

...and we’re back! After a planned three-month hiatus that accidentally stretched out into six, STUPEFYING STORIES returns—retooled, reworked, and better than ever! With more and bigger stories by more outstanding authors, STUPEFYING STORIES MK.II is tanned, rested, and ready to rock! Chock-full of great stories and novelettes, our July issue includes:

• "All the Beautiful Lights of Heaven" by Russ Colson 
• "Showing Faeries for Fun and Profit" by Julie Frost 
• "Indigene" by Lawrence Buentello 
• "Cottage Industry" by Evan Dicken 
• "The Robot Agenda" by Samantha Boyette 
• "The Wrong Dog" by Kyle Aisteach 
• "The Music Teacher" by Mark Niemann-Ross 
• "The Last Unit" by Judith Field 

Not to mention our exciting cover story, the unabashedly old-school alien world sci-fi pulp adventure, "For the Love of a Grenitschee" by Mark Wolf.

STUPEFYING STORIES: It's the SF/F reading you've been looking for! 

Now available at these links.
 
For Amazon Kindle: 
U.S. - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DR11UI0
U.K. - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DR11UI0
Germany - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00DR11UI0
France - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00DR11UI0
Spain - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00DR11UI0
Italy - https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00DR11UI0
Japan - http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00DR11UI0
India - https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00DR11UI0
Canada (English) - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00DR11UI0
Canada (French) - unnecessarily complex URL
Brazil - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B00DR11UI0

For Barnes & Noble Nook:
links coming soon

In the Apple iTunes Store:
links coming soon

More Links:
coming soon

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