I updated my bibliography, adding five stories. I am troubled by a sense that there may be more stories that have not come to mind. Most likely not.
The stories I added are dated 2018-2023. So, five stories published in five years. I am a slow writer. Even worse, I procrastinate when it comes time to send work out. When it comes back, as it sometimes does, it takes me a while to send it back out. Sometimes — as with “The Ghost of Hugo Chavez” — I go over the story several times, revising. I think the “Ghost” needs one more go-over. Then I will send it out, and it will almost certainly come back. There isn’t much of a market for stories about the remarkable political leader Hugo Chavez in the afterlife, set during the Covid pandemic, in the aftermath of the George Floyd demonstrations.