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Note: any profits seen in 2025 will go to NAPS (https://www.pms.org.uk) - a UK-based charity for PMDD.

Please interpret this theme however you like. Write us a quiet mood piece or an action-packed powerful, character-driven story. Make it humorous or as dark as the night. Send us your best speculative, horror, dark fantasy or dark sci-fi stories, as long as it's full of the feels.

Some ideas: the pattern could be in the narrative technique (fragmentation, mirror writing, foreshadowing, meta-fictional repetition), the thematic composition (think cycles of death and birth, family curses, sin and retribution) for example. Or how about incorporating chants, supernatural rituals, or echoes in your prose? A story with temporal patterns in it might float our boat (although be careful, we don’t want our inbox flooded with time loops and cyclical stories, unless done exceptionally well or with a novel twist). Seasonal patterns, recurring times, patterns in nature, patterns in objects which feature in your tale, geographical patterns, repetitive architecture, patterns in weather, behavioural ticks, recurring nightmares, obsessions…any tenuous link will do, just make it your best work and give it a good edit prior to sending it our way. You get the idea. Surprise us.


This listing is permanently closed for submissions. This may mean one of several things:
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  • The publisher has stated that they are permanently closed, or on hiatus with wording that makes it sound permanent.
  • The publication website is down in a way that appears to be permanent, and we haven't been able to find a new website for them.
  • The publication website is not down, but it appears to have been inactive for more than a year.


Market Genres
Genres
Action/Adventure
Fantasy
Horror
Humor
Literary
Science Fiction

Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Short Story
2000 to 4000 words
1 cent/word



Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Not Allowed
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only

Market-Provided Data

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Market Response Data (User-Reported)
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Count:
There are 68 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 0 | Average: 38.24 | Median: 14 | Max: 146
Responded:
97.05%
Accepted:
2.94% - avg 123 days
Rejected:
92.64% - avg 36 days (9.52% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
1.47%
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
2.94%

Pending:
There are 2 pending responses. (103 min | 111.50 average | 111 median | 120 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data.
We recommend querying after the time the market suggests to query.


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Listing added: 5 January 2025


Last officially checked: 9 May 2025


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