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From 2019 to 2023, the Folklore & Fiction dispatches and podcasts brought the principles of folkloristics to storytellers of all kinds. They were recommended by the American Folklore Society as a trusted source of folkloristic scholarship, they were the topic of peer-reviewed ethnographic research, and they were adopted as an aid to creative writing in several college and university classrooms. They were also an opportunity for me to sing several ballads in the English and Scottish tradition. I included rough mixes in the podcast editions where I discussed the ballads in question, but I also promised that I would someday gather them into an EP. Here they are along with my deepest gratitude for every reader and listener who supported my work.
Greetings, and welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Folkbyte newsletter. I'm back from England and Scotland with a steamer trunk full of folklore I'll be sharing in the Special Dispatch series beginning in January. I had planned to send you a special dispatch on the Winter Solstice, but I'll be reaching out to you twice more this month already, and I don't want to overwhelm your inboxes at Yuletide. As it is, I have an enormous amount of news to share today, so I'll crack on.
The Daily Tomorrow Is Publishing "A Mouth Full of Stones"
I'm delighted to announce that The Daily Tomorrow, a new professional SF magazine with an old-fashioned sensibility, has bought my short story titled "A Mouth Full of Stones" and will be serializing it from December 7th to December 13th. Subscribers will also receive my afterword, which ranges from traditional folklore plots, to marginalized languages, to the heat death of the universe.
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