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Stupefying Stories The Facebook aspect of Stupefying Stories magazine, StupefyingStoriesShowcase.com webzine, and Rampa That, in a nutshell, is the STUPEFYING STORIES mission.

STUPEFYING STORIES™ and Rampant Loon Press™ are trademarks of Rampant Loon Media LLC. STUPEFYING STORIES is the banner under which Rampant Loon Press (the imprint) publishes—

• STUPEFYING STORIES: our monthly (well, we’re working on that) general-interest science fiction and fantasy magazine.

• STUPEFYING STORIES PRESENTS: our line of one-off and experimental theme anthologies.

• SHOWCASE: our

free companion webzine, which you can read right now at
StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

In a larger sense, though, all STUPEFYING STORIES titles are experimental. STUPEFYING STORIES was created to test the proposition that there are readers out there who want fun, exciting, and above all, *entertaining* new science fiction and fantasy stories, and that by using modern digital publishing technologies, it is possible for us to reach these readers, with new stories by new authors, in ways that make some kind of economic sense. To bring you entertaining stories, by new authors, for about the price of a cup of coffee. If you find this idea appealing, please join the conversation here, check out our website at http://www.stupefyingstories.com, and look for our products wherever e-books are sold. If you want to *be* one of the authors we publish, you'll find everything you need to know about submitting to us on this web page:

http://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines_23.html

Thanks! Bruce Bethke
Publisher, Editor, and Executive Cat-Herder in Chief

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Today: New book!

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Today: new story!
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Today: new story!

I hasten through the dark and snowy woods, as quickly as the poor horse will carry me. Dusk is falling fast and an icy wind is rising, pierc...

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Sometimes, when I’m having trouble writing a scene, I’ll take a step back from trying to express it in words and just try to see the moment...

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“Mother,” Isaac called out to the Colony’s management system, “I’d like to talk to someone Earthside.” Isaac was bored. He had finished les...

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I once owned a violin, covered with green silk, wrapped in gold and gauze, bound with iron chains and hidden in a teak-wood cask. It was a...

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And now, as threatened promised last week: INVASION of the DISCODROIDS! I’ve been taking some deep dives into the archives lately, to fin...

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We humans love stories. We love to hear them. We love to tell them. We love to pass a good story on to others. Stories are how we learn. ...

Today: New Story!
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Today: New Story!

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I must admit, I’ve always found writers to be puzzling. I am one. I’ve had some success at being one, as you may have noticed. I grew up in ...

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Welcome to this week’s installment of The Never-ending FAQ , the constantly evolving adjunct to our Submission Guidelines and general-purp...

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Edited by award-winning SF author Bruce Bethke, STUPEFYING STORIES was created to test the proposition that there are readers out there looking for interesting, exciting, thought-provoking, and above all, *entertaining* new science fiction and fantasy stories, by writers they may not have read before, and that by using modern digital publishing technologies it might be possible for us to reach these readers, with a stream of new stories by new authors, in a way that makes some kind of economic sense.

That, in a nutshell, is the STUPEFYING STORIES mission. To bring you lots of entertaining new stories, by authors you may not have read before, for about the price of a cup of coffee.

Right now STUPEFYING STORIES is a “semi-pro” magazine, because of the low word rates we pay our authors, but the important point here is that no one on the staff is drawing a salary. We are plowing every penny we make back into making our magazine better and paying our authors and artists more. Our goal is to become a “pro-rates” magazine, and there’s only way we can do that: by selling more copies. If you find this idea appealing, please join the conversation here, check out our website at http://www.stupefyingstories.com, look for our products on Amazon.com, and above all: TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Thanks! Bruce Bethke Publisher, Editor, and Executive Cat-Herder in Chief