The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique books and reading experiences for our readers, and the desire to provide a service o...

Calendar of Fools is seeking your short stories for the Missed-Fits anthology. The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique book...

Calendar of Fools is seeking your short stories for the Missed-Fits anthology. The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique book...

Calendar of Fools is seeking your short stories for the Missed-Fits anthology. The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique book...

Calendar of Fools is seeking your short stories for the Missed-Fits anthology. The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique book...

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

An anthology of science fiction and fantasy gems rescued from the black hole of rejection, with stories from acclaimed authors such as Samuel R. Delany, Robert J. Sawyer, Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca M...

Along with twelve original short stories and essays by recent Writers of the Future are four reprinted stories and essays from acclaimed authors Martin L. Shoemaker, Kary English, Eric James Stone, an...

by Gregory Norman Bossert Gerald pulled the hair from the lint trap. It was heavy and golden and hung in a gentle curve, the sort that would cover one eye and then reverse itself to trace a collarbone...

An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.

(A Tale of Ireland that Might Have Been) by Jean Marie Ward A plague on them that said the chores of an alewife were beneath the dignity of a goddess and the first Reverend Mother Abbess of Kildare! A...

by Rich Larson Back when Danny was alive still, he was always giving me ocean facts, always real solemnly. Like: Dad, there’s a wrinkly gray shark in the Arctic Ocean that trades its eyes for parasite...

by Dale Smith "I assure you I will be the worst ever Kurt Cobain." The house had cost Cobain over a million dollars when he had bought it: three stories and nearly three quarters of an acre surrounded...

by Catherine Wells Roxanne had been in labor for forty-two hours: forty-two hours of pains that gripped her, squeezed her, then slipped away for what seemed only a moment before they clutched at her a...

by Christopher Blake We swim, singing with joy to the Stars, weaving and darting and skimming photo-plankton from the exosphere of Harvest, our home asteroid. The pod sings and the Stars sing back: ol...

by Stephen Kotowych It wasn't fully signed yet, of course. Even now, delegates of the Continental Congress who had not been in Philadelphia during the final vote earlier in the week made their way to ...

by Steve Loiaconi After recent tragic events at Holman Elementary School, your child's memories have been downloaded to the enclosed synthoid. Please charge the robot for at least 36 hours using a USB...

by Erica Ruppert Meara bent to look more closely at the curved length of bone tangled in the dusty weeds. It looked like it could be part of an arm. It might have been someone she knew once, before th...

by David Boop Hi! I'm Zack Sunstrom. You may remember me as the captain of the first faster-than-light mission to Alpha Centauri. Since coming face-to-face with death, I've had a special appreciation ...

by S. L. Harris All those long black winter afternoons, I hid in the belly of the museum surrounded by the ghosts of horses screaming. Their golden bridle ornaments shone in the greenish light, their ...

Story writers face rejection all too often. It can be disheartening, depressing, and downright defeating. Every writer has heard that it happens to all of us, but also to show, don't tell. This anthol...

Kurt Cobain was the poster-child for troubled genius, someone who found that being one of the most famous people in the world didn't do anything to take away his pain. But that's OK: maybe this time t...

Intergalactic Rejects Edited by Storm Humbert (Calendar of Fools Publishing, June 20, 2025, tpb 294 pp.) "Pod People" by Rich Larson "Life After Life After Life" by Christopher Blake "Almost Time" by Andrew Jackson "For the Rectitude of Our Intentions" by Stephen Kotowych "Disclaimer: This Is Not Your Child" by Steve Loiaconi "Messenger of Death"

Calendar of Fools is a small press comprised of a group of science fiction and fantasy authors who met at the 2021 Writers of the Future Workshop as winners of the contest. One of the most valuable le...