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Update: Even More Stories Coming

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More wonderful stories are going up all the time.

January 25: “Put Him Down” Micro Fiction by J.D. Clapp. JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in Wrong Turn Literary, The Milk House, The Whisky Blot, and several others. His story, One Last Drop, was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal, Short Story Competition.

January 30: “The Shepherd’s Calendar” by Sarah Das Gupta. Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK.Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany  and others

January 31: “Hell Hog” Hunting Fiction by J.D. Clapp. JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in Wrong Turn Literary, The Milk House, The Whisky Blot, and several others. His story, One Last Drop, was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal, Short Story Competition.

February 1: “Bids of a Feather” Poem by Sarah Das Gupta. Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK.Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany  and others

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Update: More Stories Coming

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More wonderful stories are going up all the time. Right now, four have been scheduled starting January 21st.

On January 21, “Rowan” a supernatural fantasy by Naomi Elster will appear. Naomi Elster’s writing has been published and performed almost 30 times, including in Imprint, Crannóg, and Meniscus, and at the Smock Alley Theatre. She has campaigned for reproductive justice and pay equality. She has a PhD in cancer and leads the research department of a medical charity. Originally from Laois, in the Irish midlands, she now lives in London. 

On January 22, the story will be “Water Pump” Fiction by Yuan Changming. Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 16 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022, with his debut (hybrid) novel Detaching just released by Alien Buddha Press.

January 23 will feature “Flamenco” a fantasy love story by Mehreen Ahmed, Mehreen Ahmed is Bangladeshi-born Australian novelist. She has published ten books to date and works in Litro, BlazeVox, Chiron Review, Centaur Literature. While her novels have been acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, Drunken Druid Editor’s Choice, shorts have won contests, Pushcart, James Tait, and five botN nominations.

On January 24, you will find “The Spike Buck” a flash memoir by Maxwell Adamowski, Maxwell Adamowski is a Canadian survivalist and woodsman who lived alone for a year in the wilderness performing a series of rite of passage rituals. “The Spike Buck” is one of the first stories in his book, CarQuest.

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RFM Commences Publishing Again January 21.

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Rural Fiction Magazine Cover as of October 1, 2023

RFM will begin publishing again on January 21st at 11:00 a.m. US EST with the short story “Rowan” by Irish writer Naomi Elster. Naomi’s bio reads:

“Naomi Elster’s writing has been published and performed almost 30 times, including in Imprint, Crannóg, and Meniscus, and at the Smock Alley Theatre. She has campaigned for reproductive justice and pay equality. She has a PhD in cancer and leads the research department of a medical charity. Originally from Laois, in the Irish midlands, she now lives in London. “

Be sure to check it out.

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RFM Now Has a GoFundMe Account

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This evening I established a GoFundMe account for RFM. Check it out some time. Within the near future, I will be exploring other avenues for people who wish to support RFM’s mission of supplying fiction and poetry celebrating the beauty and drama of rural life around the world, a retreat where people can go when the post modernist world becomes overwhelming.

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Adapting to the Foreseeable Future

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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.