Thursday, March 26, 2009

10

I received my tenth acceptance earlier today, for a 1,400-word short story I wrote in January 2002. The story straddles the line between horror and crime fiction, and so might best be described as non-supernatural horror fiction.

The story was accepted by the first two publications to which I submitted it, and both publications went belly-up without publishing the story. The manuscript has bounced around a bit since then, and actually was just accepted by an editor who had seen it before. It didn't fit his needs when I first submitted it, but he mentioned the story when he contacted me about submitting to a themed issue he was working on. And guess what? The story fit the theme.

3 comments:

Kevin R. Tipple said...

Cool! Where and when does it come out?

Michael Bracken said...

The story is "Games," and it's scheduled for a future issue of Out of the Gutter.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

That the zine? Haven't read any of that one yet. I am always so behind on reading stuff.