Theme for Issue 6: Waking Up Strange.

Submissions for this issue are now closed.

You wake up in an unfamiliar place, in strange surroundings. Are your clothes on? Who is in the shower? Are there empty beer cans, vials, syringes, condom wrappers scattered around you? Vomit on the floor? Blood on the sheets? Whose apartment is this?

What happened?

Day or night, winter or summer, desolate hotel or cornfield in Iowa. Drop us into a moment in time where the only common thread between these stories is waking up (to quote Heinlein) "a stranger in a strange land." Pick your favorite genre and style and make it sing - noir, horror, scifi, fantasy, steampunk, mystery, whatever.

General Submission Guidelines are here.

Please email your stories to wickerkat@aol.com by December 31st. Stories may be in any style or genre, up to 1500 words. Acceptable formats are Microsoft Word DOC, PDF, and RTF.

Simultaneous submissions are fine. Please put any bio/cover letter information that you feel is important in the body of your email.

Please put "Waking Up Strange" somewhere in the subject line of your email so that it stands out from spam messages.

Thank you in advance for your submissions.

Copyright belongs to the author on the publication date unless otherwise noted.