I try to keep RFM apolitical. However, regardless of anyone’s political leanings, I think most people would agree that troubling times likely lie ahead.

Troubled people often seek relief from their worries by escaping mentally to a better, more peaceful world. Therefore, I believe that RFM will become not only more popular but also more important to people psychologically.

Accordingly, you may gradually see some minor or subtle changes to RFM. The intent of these changes will be to offer people an avenue to a better, although fictional, world.

This might affect what I accept in a slight way, but as always in the past, I will be open to all genres and topics so long as they meet the submission guidelines. The only statement I can make at this point (this is just a vague, raw, undeveloped concept) is that RFM might lean a bit more towards publishing stories about the basics of human existence that unite us worldwide.

What basics do I mean? I mean whatever you see as basic or elemental to human nature. If you’re lost as where to start, I recommend checking out Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or some other psychological or sociological principles. Those could be starting points, but what really interests me is your ideas based on your observations of humanity. After all, isn’t that where all great literature starts?

I still have no hard date for when RFM will be wide open to submissions, but I may gradually publish more and more of what has already been submitted (I have a tremendous backlog).

Anyway, these are some thoughts for the moment.