Coffee Grinder logo with caption: The Grinder, brewing your submissions into something useful

Behind the Revolving Door, An Anthology of Choices
Celestial Echo Press




Description
Note: payments will be made only in PayPal.

Each of us makes a multitude of choices daily, some minor and some with major consequences. Do you or don’t you wear your lucky shirt to the sports event? What do you think the consequences would be if you didn’t wear your lucky shirt?

This anthology will be a collection of stories that take the reader on a journey with the author’s protagonist as they go through a trial and are forced to take an action, to make a choice. For example, does the character find a wallet on the ground? Do they open it? Return it to the owner, or keep it? What are the consequences? Do they encounter a second choice, thus going back through the revolving door? Do they find classified information, implicating a family member in a coup? What do they do with it? Is the character hiking through the woods only to find a portal, not knowing where it will take them if they enter? What happens? Is it so bad that they try to return, hence going through the revolving door? There are many, many ways this theme can be interpreted.

All fiction (humor, horror, romance, fantasy, etc.) is welcome, except erotica


Market Submission Schedule
  • Submission Window - May 1, 2025 thru Jun 1, 2025 (Ends 9 days from now)

Market Genres
Genres
Fantasy
General
Horror
Humor
Romance

Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Flash
500 to 1000 words
1 cent/word

Short Story
1000 to 4000 words
1 cent/word


Reprints
Flash
500 to 1000 words
$10/piece

Short Story
1000 to 4000 words
$10/piece


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

Market-Provided Data

This section can be updated by a representative of the publication. To add a representative, the publication should contact us to request it (no cost).


Market Response Data (User-Reported)
View recent responses from this market
This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. The more data we have the more accurate our
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.


Count:
There are 0 completed reports in the past 12 months.


Pending:
There are 40 pending responses. (0 min | 12.12 average | 15 median | 20 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.


Click and drag within chart (make a box, not a line) to zoom in. Double click chart to zoom back out.
Registered users can customize graph colors in profile settings.

Listing added: 2 May 2025


Last officially checked: 2 May 2025


The Submission Grinder is brought to you by Diabolical Plots (Read Our Stories!), the third law of thermodynamics, our generous donors, people who send in suggestions to help keep listings up to date, and many others!
Copyright © 2022 Diabolical Plots, LLC, All Rights Reserved.