Submission #27 – Flash fiction to Postcards from Hell.
I revised not one but *two* stories today. One was the flash story, which I submitted. The other was a substantially longer piece, that I needed to trim by several hundred words. The somewhat-shortened longer story is now awaiting crits with one of my crit groups. Cutting 700 words from a 5,700 word story was hard. I had to do it in three passes, with each pass resulting in fewer anti-words. I’m tentatively pleased with the result…we’ll see what my critters have to say about it.
Was good to have had a nice productive day today, as yesterday I did no work whatsoever and instead went skiing with an old highschool friend of mine. (Which was lots of fun, and it was beautifully gorgeous and sunny up on the mountain.)
Where have you been submitting flash stories? I’ve sent a couple to Dark Horizons (both bounced), but I’ve not had much success in finding other outlets.
Wow, I haven’t heard of Dark Horizons — I’ll add it to my list! I know the question is meant for Caroline, but here’s a partial list of places I send, or am aware of:
Apex Digest (for their parting shot)
Ideomancer
Escape Pod
Abyss & Apex
Raven Electrick
Vestal Review
Cafe Irreal
Flashquake
Flash Me
Alien Skin
Shadowed Realms
Son & Foe (currently closed, possibly dead)
And Antimuse.
Thanks, that looks like a good list!
And Hub is currently *only* taking subs of 800-1500….
This is actually my first time circulating a flash story, so I’m not too familiar with the markets. Postcards from Hell (http://postcardtales.blogspot.com/) does horror flash of no more than 600 words, which looked intriguing to me so I wrote a story with that market in mind. I hadn’t really researched where to send it next if it bounced…but the list that velourmane just posted should be pretty helpful for that!
Useful – the flash I’ve done is horror, so they might be getting something from me soon!
Thanks!
Yep, I’ll shoot you an email when I hear back from them.