Morpheus Tales Apocalypse Special Issue – Open to Submissions!

Ok, so I didn’t manage to submit anything to the Ripped Genes: Biopunk Special Issue, which closed to submissions yesterday. I hear it’s going to be pretty damn good though. Fortunately there’s another Special Issue from the people at Morpheus Tales, now this one really floats my boat…

Morpheus Tales Apocalypse Special Issue – Open to Submissions!

It’s 2012 – the year our world is supposed to end. Supposedly, on December 21st, we will cease to exist. But how is it going to happen? Fire? Flood? Earthquakes? Or something manmade, such as an unstoppable virus or a nuclear explosion?

You tell us. Morpheus Tales is looking for short stories of how the human race is going to die out. Use your imagination – it can be as realistic (fire, for instance) or as far-fetched (maybe zombies?) as you’d like. Is it quick and painless or slow and excruciating? Make us a little nervous that maybe, just maybe, your scenario is imminent.

We know zombies are the in thing right now – but we don’t want to dig through tons of zombie stories. Try to come up with something unique, something that will stand out in the crowd. We want to be freaked out and blown away by the methods you choose to wipe out the Earth.

What we DON’T want – vampires, werewolves, aliens, fantasy, sword and sorcery, biopunk. Otherwise, regular Morpheus Tales guidelines apply – no simultaneous submissions, standard manuscript format, only high quality character- or plot-driven stories of no more than 3,000 words. 

Please put Apocalypse  Special Issue Submission in the subject of your email and send to: morpheustales@blueyonder.co.uk

The Apocalypse Special Issue will be available as an ebook and via print-on-demand services. Contributor copies will be in ebook format.

Deadline 31st of December!

Morpheus Tales Dark Sorcery Special Issue – Writers Wanted!

Morpheus Tales Dark Sorcery Special Issue

Dark fiction featuring sorcery in all forms, whether of this world, or another. Black magic, mystical rites, wizardry conjured from your nightmares and entities summoned from the netherworld of your imagination: the sky (or the abyss) is the limit.

Up to 3,000 words in length, and one submission at a time. Attach submissions as a Word or RTF file, and include “Dark Sorcery Submission” in the title of the email.

Please send submissions to: morpheustales@blueyonder.co.uk

We are looking for first world serial rights and first world online rights.

The Morpheus Tales Dark Sorcery Special Issue is being edited by Tommy B. Smith, whose work has appeared in the hallowed pages of Morpheus Tales previously, including in MT#4 alongside fiction by Michael Laimo.

The Morpheus Tales Dark Sorcery Special Issue will be published via print-on-demand services, and be available for download.