Dear StoryTime Readers and Contributors.

It's been a great five years but all good things come to an end.

It's truly been an awesome experience for me as the publisher and editor of this magazine, but it's time now for me to move on and focus on other projects. I want to thank every writer who contributed to the magazine and every reader who read them; I couldn't have done any of it without you.

To date, Storytime has published: 146 Short Stories, 45 Book Excerpts, and three anthologies were drawn from the best of magazine.

When I started StoryTime in 2007 it was partly in response to the dire lack of African lit mags, especially online mags. In 2012 this is no longer the case I’m happy to say, with numerous online African lit mags now up and running and publishing a wide variety of quality African lit. In some small way, I think StoryTime has helped lead this prolific transition into online media, which has given voice to thousands of African writers who previously only had meagre, print only, platforms to do so.

Special thanks go to Emmanuel Sigauke who unflaggingly believed and encouraged me in this endeavour.

All the stories will remain available to read here indefinitely — barring a worldwide calamity wiping the Google servers.

Many thanks again to everyone,

Ivor.

Ivor Hartmann
Editor/Publisher
StoryTime (Publishing)
28 June 2012