For your consideration we present the Escape Artists stories that ran in 2019 which are eligible in the upcoming award nomination season.

Below are links to some aggregation projects, where fans are building lists of those eligible in the various categories. They’re great tools, and we’d like to thank all the contributors for their  efforts.

• Escape Artists Stories eligible for Award Nominations (2019)
• Hugo Nominees for Best Semi-prozine and Best Stories (2019 stories for 2020 consideration)
• Renay’s Spreadsheet of Doom

The list of individual stories for PseudoPod follows in order of publication:

2019 first publications:

• 634: Viens Jouer Avec Moi by Lisa Baldinelli
• 634: End of the Line by Paul Alex Gray 
• 635: Last Week I was Esther by Deborah L. Davitt
• 640: What Throat by Annie Neugebauer
• 641: A Song for Wounded Mouths by Kristi DeMeester
• 642: The House that Dripped Character by B.G. Hilton 
• 651: The Coven of Dead Girls by L’Erin Ogle
• 654: A Real Death by Kurt Hunt
• 654: Kintsugi by Bo Balder 
• 655: Black Matter by Vivian Shaw
• 660: Tiny Teeth by Sara Hans
• 661: The Happiest Place by Kevin Wabaunsee 
• 666: Breaking the Waters by Donyae Coles
• 668: Baby Fingers by Franklin Skinner
• 668: Polaroid, 1979 by Lora Gray
• 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience by Effie Seiberg
• 676: Things My Father Taught Me by Rhoads Brazos
• 678: The Boy Who Killed His Mother by Rosemary Hayes

Reprints of stories originally published in 2019:

• 663: Birds of Passage by Gordon B. White, originally published in TWICE-TOLD: A COLLECTION OF DOUBLES, edited by CM Muller, Chthonic Matter Press in February 2019
• 673: Venio by Gemma Files, (novelette) originally published in Vastarien Spring 2019
• 679: The Woman Out of the Attic by Gwendolyn Kiste, originally published in Flame Tree’s Haunted House anthology in January 2019
• 682: Pomegranate Pomegranate by Jack Westlake, originally published in Black Static #69 in May 2019. It was reprinted in the August 2019 issue of The Dark.

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The stars are right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do, a band of innocent authors has accomplished. After vigintillions of years the Flash Fiction Contest is loose again, and ravening for delight. Each week, batches of stories will be released into gladiatorial pits to fight for supremacy. The floor will be churned to mud with the blood of the fallen until the mightiest stories remain for your delight and dread. Head over to the forums, take up your stone, and join us in the harvest festivals of the October Country. (Continue Reading…)

The original paraphernalia for the Flash Fiction Contest had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Stuart, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Lieberman spoke frequently to the forum members about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here. (Continue Reading…)