Apocalyptic aftermath
INTERNATIONAL PRINT MARKET
PDR Lindsay-Salmon
Hungry Shadow Press is looking for short stories for its new anthology: The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse. Submissions are invited of ‘short horror, weird, dark fiction which deals with a fictional apocalypse.’ Writers are asked to place the story ‘within a short period of time (less than a day) at the beginning of a fictional apocalypse.’ Stories should involve the aftermath and should not be set ‘at the inception point or the origin of the apocalyptic event’ ie, shouldn’t be about the event itself but about the dreadful effects of the event where ‘it all started for the POV character(s). Make it personal. Make it weird. Make it disturbing. Make it beautiful.’ Avoid zombies if possible unless they are really different and original.