Oh! And it looks like a story has gone live. The Future Fire is a small SFF mag with a big, activist heart. Payment for this story was sent to Refugees International.
Despite the wild name, "The Pool Noodle Alien Posse" is a work of "mundane" SF, imagining an everyday mum trying her best with 2 kids in a climate-change-ridden world where aliens came and left after humans were their usual embarrassing selves.
But the kids are all right - and that's not nothing.
@corlin Thanks for your presence with the work! Hope you've had a lovely run of reading as of late.