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aside, but the link to ralan.com on https://compellingsciencefiction.com/guidelines.html doesn't work since the site doesn't exist anymore.

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Thanks for pointing that out, I need to remove that submissions page altogether, the magazine has been shut down for five years and you found your way to a vestigial part of the site that almost nobody visits anymore.

I wrote a post about the ralan closure in 2023: https://compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/ralan.com-closes-...

If you're looking for places to submit, https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/ is now the place I recommend to check.

I don't know how I ended up there! seconds later: oh, I clicked "original short stories" on the top of the page. and I have been thinking about trying to write some short stories myself and was immediately thinking "I wonder how I would go about submitting one somewhere" and then I saw that link...

Makes sense!

The entire section under "original short stories" is how the website used to look back when it was a science fiction magazine.

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