Daniel Kason

During August 2025, I submitted seven stories to publications, including Haven Speculative (3rd sub), Metaphorosis: Trunk Stories (5^th sub; 1 positive rejection), Bog Matter Magazine (1^st sub), Planet Scumm (2^nd sub), Uncanny Magazine (5^th sub; 1 positive rejection), Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (2^nd sub), and McSweeney’s Quarterly (2^nd sub).

I also received three rejections from publications, including ShortStory Substack (1^st rejection), The Daily Tomorrow (1^st rejection), and Broken Antler Quarterly (1^st rejection).

Now let’s get to the fun stuff. I received one hold request from Metaphorosis: Trunk Stories, which means I currently have two short stories on hold.

Finally, in the most exciting news since I started these submission recaps, I received not one, but two short story acceptances. The first is a silly Lovecraftian family drama called “The Shadow Over Jordan Lake,” which will appear in Black Cat Weekly, probably in October 2025. The second acceptance was “The Only Real Thing,” a story that begins with a man holding up a thrift story with a waffle iron, which will appear in the second volume of Revolving Doors: An Anthology of Choices from Celestial Echo Press.

There you have it! It took roughly three years since I started submitting stories again to get one accepted, but two in the same month? Insane. Expect blog posts devoted to each of these stories and their publication journeys in the coming months. But needless to say, I’m very pleased they found a home.