Deadline: September 30th 2013
Payment: 20% of the total profit will be paid for each accepted story (at quarterly intervals; if
more than five stories are accepted, they will be placed in another anthology in this series. We’d
dislike reducing your pay)

The cashier who hands you your change as if bills are foreign and coins are a tiny mystery, cast
in circle, is a fay; he’s still ginger with the silver coins, expecting iron. He gives pennies, mostly.
Bridge trolls are misplaced in the city, shoving themselves between the homeless (there are no
goats; they eat dogs now, mostly).

A siren in fishnets pouts on her corner, her whispers drawing in more dinner than her cleavage.
In the subway station three old women, six blind eyes among them, sell doilies to the tune of a
jangling cup; the first spins the thread, the second allots them to your days, the third inexorably
binds it to you. Avoid them. But there are others.

So many others.

The son of Zeus is among the WWF. The daughter of Fu Manchu rules much of the world. Not
with bombs or blades or the ever-popular dacoits, but with the subtle weapons of her age: treaties
and laws and, most frightening of all, accountants. Sherlock Holmes is dead, replaced by fellows
with all of his name and none of his talent. Cell phones are better than talent, aren’t they?
We seek stories that take something out of the past, be it mythological or fictive or horrific, and
show us how it adapts to the present. Show us why the old myths are still relevant, show them
stepping into our lives and disarraying every little thing we tell ourselves. We’re open to everything from urban fantasy to magical realism to golden age detection to noir to Lovecraftian
to some sickly strains of romance.

This is a free playground. Indulge your questions.

Payment: 20% of the total profit will be paid for each accepted story (at quarterly intervals; if
more than five stories are accepted, they will be placed in another anthology in this series. We’d
dislike reducing your pay)

Rights: First World Digital and Print.

Deadline: Submissions open until Midnight, September 30th, 2013

Rejections/Acceptances will be announced by the end of October, 2013.

Word Count: 4000-25,000 (No flash stories).

How to submit your story:
(While we will not reject stories for failing to conform to proper formatting, proper formatting
makes editors very, very happy. And happy editors are your friends.)
• All stories to be sent as an attachment to: [email protected]
• Tell us a bit about yourself and your story in the body of the email. Don’t stress about this, it
won’t make or break your submission. 🙂
• The file format must be in a .doc or .docx.• Place your name / story title / word count in the subject line. For example
“Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House of Usher / 7,300.” Word counts should be
rounded to the nearest hundred.
• Inside the document, please use Times New Roman in 12 and double spacing.
• At the top of your document, please include your name and email address.