Ten

I finished and submitted my 10th short story of the year this morning, a 2,100-word bit of erotic crime fiction.

On the 15th I received an invitation to submit to a new anthology, and I started work on this story the next day. I roughed out the plot and the opening paragraph but didn't write the story until last night. Because I couldn't get the plot twist to work the way I wanted it to, I spent more time revising what I'd written than usual, and the pieces finally fell into place this morning.