Casket Suite Prize Payment Ends January; “Mystery” Contract for First Day of Feb.

And . . . just in time for closing the ledger on January 31, Aimée and les filles came through once again, this time via PayPal with the receipt of first prize for the 2022 Defenestrationism.Net Flash Suite Contest (see January 17, et al.).

So ends the first month of 2022, on its final day. This was for my entry “Casket Suite,” an approximately 3300-word story in five parts, each of these a complete flash fiction tale on its own (yes, even including number four, “Shades of Difference,” at only 120 words), together forming a portrait of the New Orleanian sorority of “casket girls” who arrived from France in 1728, and their founder/leader the aforementioned Aimée. Based on an actual New Orleanian urban legend, the Casket Girls were the New World’s first vampires, but more than that became a group of closely-knit friends and, in their own way, pioneers as well.

Then to start a new month, yesterday, Tuesday, the contract for my “mystery” new acceptance arrived (cf. January 30) and, signed, went back later that afternoon. A mystery in that the story in question is to be in a new magazine, details on which are not yet available to the public, but with a hoped for publication date in late spring.

More to be revealed here as it becomes known.