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I've also found over the years that F&SF women writers incorporate horror into their works as well.

Fie, George! Shirley Jackson was a superb writer of horror fiction. There's also Sarah Langan, and Tanith Lee writes horror as well. And what about Chelsea Quinn Yarbro?

I would be interested in seeing this. I feel like there's three metrics to care about: page views, which counts how many people clicked on the story. Readers, or the people that not only clicked, but kept reading. And reviews, which are people that clicked, read, and then had an opinion they thought worth typing up. The last one is the hardest to get, I feel, as commentary takes a bit of an effort and some people may enjoy a story but feel they have nothing to contribute in the terms of a review. Having that in-between stat to tell if it's being read or not would be lovely. And does anyone feel that the codes are more important than the story description...? Because I sacrificed codes in favor of more text about the story and I don't think it's working.

I keep a journal of all my dreams. After a few years of doing this, my dreams started getting more vivid and detailed (or I started filling in the gaps immediately upon waking up, use your best theory here), to the point where most of my writing is just ripping stories straight out of my diary. I have beautiful, terrible, complicated worlds in my head and I get to walk through them and play my role, and this is what gets written down. And the nightmares get written down just so I can get them somewhere OTHER than my head, because holy shit can they get bad sometimes.