Deadline: December 20th, 2024
Payment: 10 cents per word and royalties
Theme: Stories on the potential consequences of the 2024 Presidential election told in current, near future or even similar situations where such a leader is in power

We are buying stories for 10 cents a word for an anthology on the potential consequences of the 2024 Presidential election told in current, near future or even similar situations where such a leader is in power.

As such while we refer to our time line, we are open to submissions to life under such a regime in alternative settings.

The incoming President of the United States will be authoritarian with underlying elements of white and christian nationalism, an unapologetic oligarchy, has announced his interest in ending US involvement with NATO, siding with the Soviets and Koreans against Europe, putting RFK Junior in charge of health care, using the armed forces to police Americans, and becoming a dictator on day one.  This is a short list, two minutes of research will tell you more.

This anthology is our vision what these next years will look like.  Not just in the White House, but in the day-to-day world on our planet.

Under such conditions people will adapt, people will suffer, people will prosper, people will actively and passively resist.

Project 2025 will rule.

There will be oligarchs and red state theocracies, blue states struggling to protect their citizens and citizens struggling to protect their states, cities, towns, families and businesses.

There will be teachers struggling to teach, prisons filling up, work camps, deportations, and the liberation of hate, and maybe even a dawning awareness that this might have been a mistake.

I want stories of people who fight the change, endure the change, or embrace the change.  But key word is People.  I want the stories to be about the People (an maybe the animal liberation front in Springfield or a couch salesmen in Ohio who knows things.

I want to feel your anger.

I want to laugh or cry with satire.

I want to cheer when your characters are redeemed.

What we want.

We will be buying poems, essays, and stories.

Our average purchased story length is 2550 words.

Out publisher likes satire, humor, redemption, and new looks at the world.  Conservatives are not inherently evil, liberals are not inherently noble.  People are complicated.

The anthology will be edited by the B Cubed editorial team Team

Submissions should meet the following criteria:

• Word or RTF
• Contain the authors name, address, and word count
• Be free of odd ball fonts

We will accept reprints, but the bar is high, very high.

Auto rejections

• Assassination Stories
• Graphic Sex
• PDF files

Payment and Schedule

We pay ten cents a word and royalties

We close December 20, 2024

Via: BCubed Press.