In September I won a micro fiction contest sponsored by Amid the Imaginary.
My winning entry can be read here.

I actually took an idea I’d had for a novel to see if I could condense it to fit within the contest’s 500-word restriction.
I guess it worked.
Probably this makes it more likely that I’ll get to the book length version someday. The idea of a disposal/recycling business in a magical context has a lot of possibilities.