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Climate change short fiction contest! Prize is $1K plus publication, which can also be read as they're paying the winner $1K for the privilege of publishing the story. (Though some other submissions will also be published or considered for publication in other venues, it says.) Deadline Jan 15, and up to three submissions per author.

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Hey, how come we never hear about the triple goddess Hera? Hera Pais (girl), Hera Teleia (adult woman), Hera Khera (widow). Fits right in with the Maiden Mother Crone deal, but whenever someone's trying to shoehorn a Greek goddess into that framework, it always seems to be Hekate...

wait.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light. Did you seriously name two of your monsters "Dude Sphinx" and "Sphinx Lady". Do they have no other distinguishing characteristics.

(Yes. Yes they did. Andros Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia. And I suppose I am expecting too much of this series; remember they gave us Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.)

cn animal death possibly with a side of animal cruelty

An injured deer went to a hospital ER. And somebody decided its injuries were too extensive for it to live. Like, I realize that wasn't an animal hospital, but that sure sounds like a damn smart deer—couldn't we have tried a little harder to save it?