I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's 
Send them in. I'll start reading them from this weekend.
For some of the stories with good ideas whose execution can be bettered, I hope to ask the authors for revisions. Btw, we will look through the past two years stories, not just this year's contest submissions. Over the two years I have improved my own literary taste and skills. If I had missed any author earlier because I was stupid, it's time to rectify that omission. We'll have to work out how we'll handle revisions to stories. Probably get the original stories out on TheScian.com and later update them with revised stories as the case may be.
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