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Deadline: June 15th, 2014 Payment: $25.00, payable upon acceptance, and 1 trade paperback and electronic copy of the book provided upon publication. The late 19th century saw the invention of film, and almost immediately after, the Horror genre. The earliest examples were depictions of paper or cloth ghosts and haunted locales, but it was only a short time before titles likeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein made their first appearances. The 20’s gave us Nosferatu and the first Universal Monsters, The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The 30’s, 40’s and early 50’s were dominated by Universal, but Hammer Film Productions jumped in toward the end to help carry the torch for monster films another couple of decades. It was a golden era for the genre and there is not a writer among us that doesn’t count at least a few of these films as major influences and inspirations. RECONSTRUCTING THE MONSTER pays homage to these classic films. We are looking for stories inspired by any Horror film released before 1974. If the work the movie was based upon exists in public domain, give us a continuation of the story, a side story or a reboot. Tell us a story of Dracula living in a modern Manhattan penthouse with Frankenstein’s Monster living in the tunnels beneath the city, or maybe the other way around. Just don’t mention any neck-bolts. Do your homework! If the work is still under copyright, give us a re-imagining of the tale and theme. Instead of discovering a Gill-man in the Amazon, discover a large, ultra-aggressive and poisonous species of jellyfish or Octopus on a scientific expedition in Melanesia. Or tell us a completely original story for which a movie served as inspiration. Each submission should begin with a short paragraph...

Deadline: June 15th, 2014 Payment: 1cent/word What are we looking for? Flash fiction, pure and simple. No genre or content restrictions. 1000 words or less. Possible themed submission windows in the future. Good flash fiction is like a freeze frame—a snapshot of a real story about real characters. The word count is low, so many of the details are left to the reader to fill in, but they’re there. Flash fiction is not the same as a vignette, or a scene; it hints at much more. Give us something real (though not necessarily realistic), unique, and interesting. What is our submission and publication schedule? Open for submissions for Q1. We will publish online quarterly. Schedule subject to change. SUBMISSIONS PUBLICATION Q1: 1 April–15 June 1 July Q2: 1 July–15 September 1 October Q3: 1 October–15 December 1 January Q4: 1 January–15 March 1 April How do you submit? During submission window, please email submissions (as .pdf, .rtf, .doc, or .docx attachments) to [email protected] with the subject “Flash fiction submission”. Please include contact information in the email itself, and withhold it from the manuscript. All submissions must be double-spaced and in a legible font and font size. Feel free to follow Standard Manuscript Format, apart from contact information. Emails should be formatted as follows: Author’s name: Submission title: Simultaneous submission: (y/n) Cover letter / bio: not required, but welcome Will we pay you? Yes, 1 cent/word. How will your work be published? Initially, online, free to read. Future plans exist for an ebook version of an annual anthology of select pieces. How and when should you query? Expected response time will be updated on an on-going basis. As publication occurs three months after submission windows open, we don’t expect this to be a big issue. Please feel free to email [email protected]...

Deadline: June 15, 2014 Payment: $30 and a contributor copy   Motorcycle Themed Anthology: Elektrik Milk Bath Press is seeking stories for a new motorcycle-themed anthology.  What we are looking for: 1. We are looking for unusual, original stories that, in some way, shape, or form involve motorcycles and/or their riders, surroundings, etc.  Perhaps the entire story revolves around a particular motorcycle and/or its rider.  Maybe a motorcycle is important to the setting or the background, maybe it’s just passing through...  While motorcycles or their elements must figure into the piece, the actual degree of involvement in the story… well, we’ll leave that up to you.  If you want an idea of what we like, check out one of our favorite motorcycle-themed stories, Julio Cortazar’s “The Night Face Up.”  2.  The above mentioned stories are just ideas.  We want to see what you come up with, so show us your creative best.  Stories can be dark fantasy, horror, magic realism, literary, etc.  Humor is okay, too.  What we want, more than anything, is a good, solid story—stores that touch us, as readers, in some way.  We love stories that are written from an unusual perspective, contain unusual but believable characters, or show us something we’ve never seen before.   We don’t mind sex or blood—not even a bit—but we are not huge fans of excessive gore.   If it is necessary to the story, no problem at all—we get that.  Gore for gore’s sake... not so much. 3.  A word about word count:  We are accepting stories from 1000—5000 words, with the majority of stories probably falling in 2000-5000 word range.  We are pretty flexible with word count as long as it’s a great story.  Impress us and even if you are a little over or a little under, we...