Douglas Cohen's thoughts, and final inventory, of Realms of Fantasy

Realms of Fantasy's Assistant Editor Douglas Cohen is still not in a position to talk about too much of the inside goings-on at the magazine, but he has posted this long piece of musings and reminscences, mostly focusing on the final issue of the magazine (which has only four stories, though they're long: "Impractical Cats" by K.D. Wentworth, "Sails Above Greensea" by Adam Corbin Fusco, "Name Day" by Garth Upshaw, and "Sand Castles" by Desirina Boskovich).

Cohen also lists the stories that have been accepted, but haven't made it into print (not all of them have been contracted or paid for). Some of this final inventory list may see print if the magazine is sold, but the future of the magazine (if any) is still undecided. The stories in limbo are:
"Mister Oak" by Leah Bobet
"Digging for Paradise" by Ian Creasey
"Desaparacedios" by Aliette de Bodard
"Melanie" by Aliette de Bodard
"Bob and the Mermaid" by William Eakin
"Tio Gilberto and the Twenty-Seven Ghosts" by Ben Francisco
"The Demon of Hochgarten" by Euan Harvey"
"The Fortitous Meeting Between Gerard Van Oost & Oludara" by Christopher Kastensmidt
"Super Family" by Ian Donald Keeling
"Red Dirt Kingdoms" by Jay Lake
"The Unknown God" by Ann Leckie
"Felicity's Engine" by Sharon Mock
"The Hearts of Men" by T.L. Morganfield
"A Road Once Traveled" by Richard Parks
"Narrative of a Beast's Life" by Cat Rambo
"Flower Fairies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Well of Forgetting" by Meredith Simmons
"Stories of the Sand" by Dirk Strasser
"Father Pena's Last Dane" by Hannah Strom-Martin
"Just Another Word" by Carrie Vaughn
"Nell and the Devil" by S.E. Ward

Additionally, "Images of Anna" by Nancy Kress was left in the inventory, but Cohen wrotes that she has been able to re-sell it, to Fantasy Magazine. And Fantasy's Sean Wallace writes that he has seen several of the others in his own slush pile recently, so the remaining inventory may be smaller than Cohen realizes.

For more on the magazine's closure, see this article.