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Get under the skin
BY GARY DALKIN
US website Sub-Q – the name is medical shorthand for subcutaneous – offers readers stories that get under your skin. This ‘interactive magazine for interactive fiction’ launched in the summer and now publishes a work of interactive fiction every Tuesday.
Editor-in-chief Tory Hoke is looking for original and reprint works of science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird tales, mystery, magic realism, and mash-ups, as well as poetry and ‘webtoons’. Submissions should be smart, unexpected, and written in a way which means they could only be presented in an interactive form, online or on some form of device, or both. Mobile compatibility is preferred. Tory’s editorial team like beautiful prose, but also pulpy fun. If you’d like to submit something, but not sure if it might be suitable enquire via the form at: https://sub-q.com/about/contact/. You can also send general enquiries by email: query@sub-q.com If your work is not already interactive your submission must include a detailed proposal for adding an interactive element, whether that means using choices to navigate the story, or includes elements of audio, video or animation. Sub-Q prefers Twine, a popular open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories, but will accept material in most interactive formats or as regular prose in doc, odt or rtf files.