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Deadline: September 16th, 2018 Payment: Royalty split, minimum of $20 payment Note: My apologies on the short timeframe, I just heard about this one! A horror issue? In winter? Not, perhaps, the season you think of when it comes to frights and ghosties and things that go bump in the night, eh? Then again, perhaps your favorite intergalactic editors forgot to send out the submission call in time, and are now one cycle behind on their theme issues? Hmm, yes. Perhaps perhaps. But winter is actually the perfect month for horror with a splash of science fiction. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born during an unseasonably cold volcanic winter (1816’s “Year Without a Summer”), when Shelley was stuck indoors at Lord Byron’s estate and challenged with a story-writing contest. Horror classics The Thing, The Shining, and Jack Frost all emphasize the isolation and oppressive darkness of the season. And who knows what strange, ancient microorganisms are preserved in the Siberian permafrost, where an ill-placed fire (or the slow burn of global climate change) might unleash a pandemic? Get the picture? If your story plays off the “winter” theme–literally or not–even better. Most of our normal submission stipulations still apply here. Ideally, submissions should be both horror AND have a speculative/sci-fi element–a slasher cutting through skiers with an ice-pick (while fun) won’t cut it. Submissions close September 16th, 2018. What We’re Looking For Previously unpublished short fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk. Basically anything that pleases Scummy, our megaphone-toting slime buddy, will be considered for entry into the interstellar archive aboard Scummy’s saucer. How to Submit Include submissions as an .RTF or .DOC attachment sent to [email protected] along with a brief cover letter...