AN ELECTRIC TRAGEDY

Issue 1 due 1st May 2011

General
This is a Speculative Fiction webzine, hence all work must contain some element of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, etc

We are looking to purchase First Rights only

Reprints not accepted

No simultaneous submissions

So much has been done in the genre, try and push the limits as far as you can. In fact, erase the limits.
Cliches are fine if you can do something to keep them interesting
Violence, sex and language are ok if they add to the plot, but we don't want anything for shock value only
When submitting work, please state if we may archive it in The Vault

As we are designed for emerging writers, we feel it acceptable to offer comments on work we accept or deny. If you would like your work considered exactly as sent and do not wish for suggestions to change it in any manner, please let us know when submitting. Furthermore, if you would like to respond to any of our comments please do so. We want to work with you to improve both your work and ours.

Stories
1,000 - 10,000 words
Longer works will be considered for serialization. Please inquire before sending anything over 10,000 words.

Flash Fiction and Prose Poems
Up to 1,000 words
Please specify if you would like the work considered Flash or Prose

Flash Fiction will be published under stories in the May issue, we will have a seperate Flash page online for June
Prose Poems will be published under poetryLine Poetry

No hard limit on length

All formats and styles accepted

Payment At the time we are only able to offer token payment, $3 per story and $1 for flash fiction and poerty. All payments are made through PayPal. We hope to increase pay rates as the site develops a reading base.Submit up to five stories/poems at a time. Response time will always be within a week. All submissions should be sent via email, attached in doc. pages. or rtf. format to...nathan(AT)anelectrictragedy.com

http://www.anelectrictragedy.com/index.html

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES: UPDATE

Beneath Ceaseless Skies
An Online Magazine ofLiterary Adventure Fantasy

Enter to win signed copies of Marie Brennan's novels Warrior and Witch
Issue #67 -- Apr. 21, 2011
Featuring cover art by Tina Marie Lane

"Dancing the Warrior, Pt. II," by Marie Brennan
Anger gave Sen cold focus, but it made Leksen crazy. She sidestepped his first wild blow and got in a solid kidney punch that made him howl; he grabbed her arm and slugged her in the stomach. Sen snarled that away and clawed his face, leaving bloody furrows down his cheek. It wasn't a Dance of any kind, but she didn't care. It was her sacrifice to the Warrior. Either he was going down, or she was.

"Memories of Her," by Greg Linklater
I take one stone hand in the other and unscrew it. Inside my hollow wrist is a padded pocket. A mantis scuttles out, tethered to me by a chain as fine as hair but stronger than anything I could name. It scurries up my arm, across my cheek, and props on the tip of my nose. “Time now,” it clicks. “You go.”

Audio Fiction Podcast 058
"Love, Resurrected," by Cat Rambo, from BCS #65
This half-life dragged at her. She felt weary all the time, a chilled-bone sluggishness of motion that belied the quickness of her thoughts. It was not painful to breathe, but it was tiring, and she began to eschew it when alone and unworried about frightening the living.

From the Archives:
"The Bone House," by James Lecky, from BCS #20 and Audio Fiction Podcast 018
I like to carve. I like to sculpt. But the ironwood trees in the forest shatter even the finest blades. Father says that the war has changed them, that the magic of the battlemages has infected the land, and I have no cause to doubt him--he has been my educator and my window on the world. Bone is easier to shape.

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HUB: UPDATE

Fiction
Cycloparalleladrine by Saxon Bullock

Reviews
Soulless
The Empathy Effect
The Hammer

Feature
Coming to Terms with the End of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Part I by Ro Smith

http://www.hubfiction.com/

ABSENT WILLOW REVIEW: UPDATE

April 2011

Through the Church Window - by Steven Avila
As Martha Waits - Edward Turner III
Abigail - James C. Bassett
Emergence - A.J. Faust
Caught in a Trap - Terry Light
Lonestar - John Richard Albers
Desolation Dreaming - Sean A. Lusher
Wildman - Richard Marsden
Touch of Death - BV Lawson
From the Field - Nick Medina
Human Resources - Gregg Chapman

http://absentwillowreview.com/

LACUNA: UPDATE

Lacuna
A Journal of Historical Fiction

Issue 4

Bride of the Water by James Lecky

The Elder Brother Washing His Hands by Adrian Van Young

Anne Boleyn to the King by Jean Hollander

Newgate Jig by D. J. Cockburn

Edgar Cayce by Jack Peachum

Centurion’s Choice by R. S. Pyne

The Painting Called Love Victorious by Gabriel Malloy

Ethel Rosenberg on her Trial and Execution for Treason by Liz Dolan

Ben JohnsonDay by Ricky Ginsburg

Reviews

A Penny Always Has Two Sides by Steffie Steinke

Day of Revenge by Deanna Poach

http://lacunajournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/issue-4-april-2011.html

HUB: UPDATE

ISSUE 136

Fiction

The Walker by Adam Christopher

Reviews and Features

Feature
Interview: James O’Barr

Reviews
The Age of Odin
Nekropolis
Castle Ravenloft / Wrath of Ashardalon

http://www.hubfiction.com/

ABSENT WILLOW REVIEW: UPDATE

March 2011

Michael Moorcock Interviewed

Fiction

Kevin Pinkham... Gnawing at the Root

Richard Beland... Enki

Joe Jablonski... Digital Embrace

Naomi Bergner... Something to be said for a little drama

S.G Rogers... Falling Upwards

Sylvia Hiven... All That Was Left

Chris Stevens... Aira

Oscar Connell... Letters to Chelsea

AJ Brown... Mickie's Stars

CB Iovas... The Cursed Man

Steven Avila... The Bridge

Shannon Marcello... Pins and Needles

http://absentwillowreview.com/

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES: UPDATE

Beneath Ceaseless Skies
An Online Magazine ofLiterary Adventure Fantasy

Issues available in the Amazon Kindle Store

Issue #64 -- Mar. 10, 2011

"Breathing Sunshine," by Garth Upshaw
"You're one of the lucky ones. We could put a mask on you, keep the particles out for a few days. You'd turn back into what you were before." I moved closer to the fort and took another reading. The needle hovered over yellow. My tongue felt as dry as sand.

"Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping," by Geoffrey Maloney
They couldn't be serious, Morrow thought, could not possibly be...but then the Major allowed the squid to slip from his fingers and into his mouth. Miss Twickenham stifled a horrified gasp. Morrow's heart quickened its beating. Surely, there had been some sleight of hand in the Major's actions. What he had witnessed was impossible, and he wondered just how strongly the professor’s tobacco had been tinctured with laudanum.

Audio Fiction Podcast 055
"The Ghost of Shinoda Forest," by Richard Parks, from BCS #63
Whether I was drunk or sober, Princess Teiko haunted my dreams. I had always assumed, if I drank enough that one day this would no longer be true, but there had been fifteen years of drinking after we parted, plus two more after her death, and now my optimism was quite exhausted. As this foolish hope had been all that I had to fight her with, there was nothing left for me to do tonight except the only sensible thing--I surrendered.


From the Archives:
"Six Seeds," by Sara M. Harvey, from BCS #27
Dollies were the chore of my life: winding them, mending gears, and keeping good care of their pricier parts which pleasured the men.

http://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/

ABSENT WILLOW REVIEW: UPDATE

We are very excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the Absent Willow Reviews' 2nd Annual Short Story Contest!

First Prize: $150.00

Second Prize: $75.00

Third prize: $25.00

Plus Honorable Mentions

First, Second, Third, and selected Honorable Mention winning stories will be published in future issues of the Absent Willow Review

Entries must be received by June 30, 2011.

Details and submission forms can be found by visiting the website or our contest page at : http://absentwillowreview.com/contest

ARCANE

Arcane publishes the best horror and weird fiction quarterly in print and for ereaders. The first issue is scheduled to be released spring 2011.

Arcane is a fiction magazine concentrating on weird horror, the supernatural and the fantastic. Imagine if all of the “cool kids” from the original Weird Tales — H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clarke Ashton Smith, etc. — has been writing continuously from that day until this; what would they be producing? We prefer story lengths from 1,000 words up to 6,000 words but will consider longer – just realize that a long story will have to be better than the two or three shorter stories it would replace.

The biggest plus a story can have is voice. Let us know that you’re comfortable with the English language — in fact, that it’ll sit up and bark like a dog for you.

http://www.arcanemagazine.com/