Yep, only 9 stories this year. I'm glad to hear that you're finding the stories good, as well as innovative!

(Although: 2 of this year's authors have said that they've actually written other stories inspired by the prompts that they received, which they plan to post after the fest. They could have posted during the fest, of course, if the subsequent stories also met the fest rules! But the authors chose not to, for whatever reasons.)

Thank you very much for the kind words, Walt.