Now presenting on Hell Itself: “A Tennis Match with a Queen Ant”
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A great many people dismiss origin stories, but secondary-world stories about how something came about truly highlight the differences between that world and ours, which makes us reconsider our own. Whether they're connected to a franchise or standalone, I love them when done well. And this one is.
Appropriately for the imminent solstice, my story “Daylight Savings Time” asks, “what if we just had a few more hours in the day?”
Published by @hellitself.bsky.social, find it here: hellitself.com/daylight-sav...
I have made a couple of changes to the @hellitself.bsky.social guidelines.
First, I've decided to set a minimum word count of 1,000 words.
Second, I've created a two-tier minimum number of rejections so longer stories require fewer to be eligible.