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For your consideration we present the Escape Artists stories that ran in 2021 which are eligible in the upcoming award nomination season. The list of individual stories for PseudoPod follows in order of publication can be found below, or all year long as we go along.

2021 first publications:

• 743: If It Bit You by Donyae Coles 
• 744: This Wet Red by Marisca Pichette
• 747: Keeping House by Sarah Day
• 748: The Infinite Error by Jon Padgett
• 752: It Rises From Between My Bones by Donna J. Munro
• 754: Step Down, Step Down by Alexandra Duncan
• 754: Snip Snip Snip by Matt Thompson
• 756: To Witness by Luciano Marano
• 760: Akiko’s Legacy by Eugie Foster
• 765: The Child Feast of Harridan Sack by Kaitlyn Zivanovich
• 769: Songs in a Lesser Known Key by Mjke Wood
• 771: The Human Chair by Edogawa Ranpo with a new translation from Allen Zhang
• 772: A Short Story in Seven Looks by Sarah Turi Boshear
• 774: Vanity, Vanity by Dan Fields
• 778: Live From The End Of The World by Frank Oreto
• Witching Hour by Ash Beker, Alasdair Stuart and Summer Fletcher
• 786: Licking Roadkill by Richard E. Dansky
• 790: The Humbug by Orrin Grey

Reprints of stories originally published in 2021:

• 779: Trowel, Brush, Bones by Audrey R. Hollis, originally published in Iron Horse Literary Review in January 2021  
• 784: American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story by Laird Barron, originally published in There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, Crystal Late Publishing, August 2021  
• 787: On Seas of Blood and Salt by Richard E. Dansky, originally published in The Jewish Book of Horror, Denver Horror Collective, October 2021
• 789: I Will Not Walk in Darkness by Jamie Grimes, originally published in Georgia Gothic, Southern Nightmares, November 2021
• 789: High Water Slack by Jamie Grimes, originally published at Nightlight Podcast, December 2021 
• 791: MeeMee by Can Wiggins, originally published in Georgia Gothic, Southern Nightmares, November 2021
• 791: The Shimmer of Trees by Eric J. Guignard, originally published in Campfire Macabre, Cemetery Gates Media, January 2021
• 791: The Incident in Exeter was originally published in Curtains 84 Concert Visions To Benefit #SaveOurStages edited by Brock Wilbur & Meghan Ball