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BCS #440 ebook is out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by returning BCS authors Jonathan Olfert and Julie Reeser @abetterjulie, behind cover art by returning BCS artist Jereme Peabody.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors and First Readers. Thank you!)

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Weightless Books · Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #440Issue #440 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Olfert and Julie Reeser.

New Issue: BCS #438 is out today, featuring stories of lands beyond and coming home from them and from war by Stephen Case and Trae Hawkins, a From the BCS Archives story by Sara Saab, behind cover art by Ankush Sharma.

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Beneath Ceaseless SkiesBeneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #438 by Scott AndrewsThe Brittle Terrain by Stephen Case. The Forgotten by Trae Hawkins.

I had the loveliest rejection letter from a big lit mag. My personal essay "The Centaur Effect" doesn't work for their theme, but here is what they wrote:

"We appreciated reading your work. We are inspired by passages that were frankly, fearless and deeply wrought, as well as by the evocation of rural geography that we've rarely found in literary non fiction. To be sure, the entanglement of family and animal life, ecology and social history is impressive."

Personalized rejections are rare. To receive one this complimentary is almost unheard of.

Someone will want to print this essay eventually.
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The BCS Patreon is (by just $1!) up to the monthly amt we'd need to hire a 6th First Reader.

(BCS First Readers get paid an honorarium for their work reading subs & writing all rejections personalized. We've always paid them; since 2010. It's now $125/mo.)

$125/mo is less than they deserve, but it's respect & a reward. Subs volume is up this year. Hiring a 6th Reader would reduce the load on all our staff and allow faster Reply Times to writers. 1/x

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