All good fiction comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
~Rebecca West
Short stories and anthologies.
Often it is easier to write a 100k novel than it is to think up a great short story idea and condense it all into 5,000 words. We at AntiType Press understand the skill that goes into short stories. As such, we are producing a collection of the best we can find (or those that find us) around the theme of the genre we specialise in: crime/mystery.
2008-2009 secondary theme is: Consequences.
Submission guidelines:
- 5,000 words max (that doesn't mean 5,001 or 5,100. 5,000)
- edit it, spellcheck it, get a few other people to read it first. You want to send us your best work.
- must be crime/mystery. And no, it's not okay to put an Elf in a policeman's uniform...unless, of course, your fiction is OUTSTANDING. But even then we won't appreciate having to get sneaky with our own rules.
- send your logline and short story pasted IN the body of the e-mail (no attachments) to submissions [at] antitype-press.co.uk. As a subject heading put, "Short Story:" and then put your title, for example, "Short Story: My Mum's a Duck."
Deadline: 28th Feb 2009
The equation began to spew forth. A diophantine analysis, where all that was certain was that which remained uncertain. And then her processing began to shut down, like an old television condensing a moving image into a white dot, so Emily's brain started to take her into hibernation, somewhere it could control her safety, somewhere away from all of this.
Diophantine Analysis