Writing a short story: The End

The Mountain of the Lord is finished! It ended up at 74 pages, and 16,211 words that's really long for a short story, and is in fact well into novelette range, but the anthology's upper limit is 17,000 and I just have to hope that they like it enough to accept something that large. If they don't, well, sad me I guess—I'll have a story that's too long, and with too narrow an audience, to ever publish anywhere else. That's the problem with writing stories specifically for collections like...