Writing update, pettiness and wins

Previously on "primeideal blathers about original writing," I had just beaten the deadline for a silly poetry project that did not really give specifics about what they were looking for. Well, the reply I got was "this is great but it might be too out-there to fit with everything else, we'll get back to you." So I'm flattered but also, like, you weren't specific so this is what I had to go with! Anyway, I am still impatiently twiddling my thumbs on that but, in the meantime, I got some good news on other poems!

Currently have a short story in progress for a specific call, that could be "complete" in its current form, or could have several more scenes added, either would work and fit the word count limits. So I figured I'd wait until the last minute and potentially add more if I got more inspiration, but, just now as I sat down to write this I double-checked the deadlines and...there are two conflicting sources so...it may already be too late D: we'll see.

Market A is looking for longfic horror on theme X. I have two stories on theme X, one of which is almost long enough but not really horror, one of which is more horror-adjacent but significantly shorter and also being submitted somewhere else. I could pull it from the first market, but...

Market B is looking for shortfic horror on theme Y. And of course my story for theme Y is slightly too long, isn't that the way of things ;) But thinking about it some more, I feel like I could chop off the existing end and write a new, pithier end that's more on-topic for theme Y. We'll see. I guess.

Edit to add: another longish fic got sent somewhere that is probably just a "never responded" place, I should at some point write it off and try again elsewhere. That is, if there are other markets it would be a good fit for...who knows...we'll see...