Taking Submissions: Ugly Babies
Deadline: September 25th 2013 Payment: There will be two Editor’s Choice Awards for $25 each. Each Editor’s Choice Award winner will receive a free contributor paperback copy and $25. Cash award is payable via PayPal only and will be made approximately 65 days from publication of the anthology. "Editor’s Choice Award Winner" will be posted under the author's name where the piece is placed inside the anthology. All contributors will earn a free Kindle edition of the anthology. There’s nothing quite like the birth of a child. Children are born in our likenesses... we treasure their beauty, their innocence, and marvel as they take their first breaths outside of their mother’s womb. In a perfect world, babies are miracles. But as we know, the world is not always perfect. “... then something like a stick insect, enormous bulging eyes among stiff fragilities that were limbs... a small girl all blurred, her flesh guttering and melting... a doll with chalky swollen eyes, its eyes wide and blank, like blue ponds, and its mouth open, showing a swollen little tongue. A lanky boy was skewed, one half of his body sliding from the other. A child seemed at first glance normal, but then Harriet saw there was no back to its head; it was all face, which seemed to scream at her.” -- from Doris Lessing’s Fifth Child What happens when we allow ourselves to conceptualize the horrible possibilities -- the terrifying consequences of childbirth gone wrong -- the unimaginable monstrosity that might be born into this world, or perhaps another -- the worst case scenario of what could but shouldn’t be? UGLY BABIES -- the anthology. Bring us your ruminations on the abnormal, the abominations, the grotesque, the downright appallingly hideous children your dark minds can conceive... from the time of...
Taking Submissions: Fascination With Fear – Real Ghost Stories
Deadline: September 25th 2013 Payment: Exposure Only Fascination With Fear is a blog by a dedicated horror fan for horror fans. Sarcasm abounds, ranting ensues, and opinions are readily available. Movie reviews, random lists, and general discussions about the horror genre is what it's all about. Hey kids! Naturally we Halloween here at FWF and we go all out on our blog with a Festival of Lists. This year we want to try a few new things, one of which is hearing from our readers. Do any of you have a ghost story? If you have had a weird, creepy, unexplainable experience, we want to hear it! Christine and I are hoping to gather your ghost stories and post them on the blog in October, including a few of our own. It could be a "friend of a friend" tale, or a local urban legend, as long as it is bone chilling. Please send your yarns to my (Marie) email with the subject "FWF Ghost Story". Please let me know if you would like to remain anonymous. [email protected] Halloween is coming, and we are excited. Are you? Via: Fascination With Fear's Facebook.
