Submission GuidelinesDon't send us more than one story per given month. The editorial staff's time is volunteer and limited. If we get 2000 stories a month, we're fucked. Besides, we’re only giving you a T-shirt, for chrissakes.No previously published materials. We only want original pieces of short crime fiction. No reprints, no excerpts, no interviews. OBEY THE WORD COUNT!!!!! Limit your stories to 5000 words or less (see: reasoning behind one-per-month rule). We don’t care if you wrote the best story since Dashiell Hammett picked up a crayon. If it’s 5001 words, it won’t even get read. We check and we get pissed off. Look at the box. See it? Now try to think outside it. Please. Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease no more frakkin’ serial killer stories. Even if you’ve done what you think is a great one, ITS BEEN DONE!!!! Hitmen are coming in a close second. IF YOU NEED TO USE THESE CLICHES, please have a decent new angle to the story. A twist, ANYTHING! This is a genre-specific crime fiction website. If you don't know what that means, then don't send us your goddamn story. No Sci-Fi, Horror or Romance. Erotica (by way of sex) is okay, but PLEASE have violence, crime, murder, mayhem and chaos. Or a monkey. We like monkeys. They throw poop. Stories may be attached as a Word Document (preferred) or cut and pasted into an e-mail. Contact info we need: Name, address, word count and a short bio. The chosen will be notified by e-mail and on the website. Fan fiction will never be chosen AND openly mocked on the website. You have been warned We don’t do rejection letters. Upon submitting, you’ll receive an auto-response detailing when you can expect to be notified by, if and when accepted for publication. If you aren’t notified, you didn’t make it. Got it?!!!! Send your stories to: |
