#new story published

[harrison-abbott]

Got a new story published! Which can be read here

[enigmaris]

If Lois Lane had a nickle for every time she had to help an overpowered boy from the midwest with the power of journalism, she'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but its weird that its happened twice.

Danny watched as Lois pulled out her phone and pulled up a recording app.

“What are you doing?”

“You came to a journalist and are surprised to get an interview?” She asked him, her tone clearly joking. “What you’ve given me here is great kid, but newspaper clippings and copies of federal laws don’t get the public’s attention. I need a story, Phantom’s the story.”

“I’m not Phantom.”

Lois looked at him, less than impressed. Slowly, she turned the screen of her computer until it was visible to both of them. There, in full clarity, was a front-page story from his hometown newspaper. ‘Danny Phantom saves Bus Full of Children!’ and there was a picture of him in his ghost form, his face crystal clear on her screen.

"Phantom’s a ghost. I’m just a dumb kid.” Danny tried again.

Lois pinched the bridge of her nose with her right hand and muttered to herself.

“Why do all you midwestern boys have the same schtick?”

“I’m sorry?” Danny said, unsure if he should be apologizing or not.

“Changing your last name from Fenton to Phantom does not a secret identity make kid. It might work for most civilians, but anyone familiar with the hero game will clock you from a mile away.”

“I’m not Phantom.”

“Sure, kid. But I’m sure you have a way for me to interview him, right? Because I want to talk to him before I do anything else about your town.”

Danny hugged himself and looked down at his knees.

“Is it really that bad?”

“Not the worst I’ve seen. Wonder Woman’s is paper thin. I'm pretty sure most people in DC know who she is outside of the cape and just don’t say anything because she scares them.”

Danny snorted involuntarily at that, looking back up at the woman.

“What’s going on in your town, Phantom? Why come to a journalist and not the Justice League?”

“The Anti-Ecto Acts got passed like a year ago. They state that only being that produces or contains ectoplasm above a certain amount is considered non-sapient and is to be turned over to the government for disposal.” Danny said. “I put the whole thing in there for you to read, but it's long. Amity Park has a lot of ectoplasm in it. It's seeped into the air and water. Normal human people have it in them now. At first, those agents were just firing at me whenever I finished a ghost fight. I could deal with that. Their aim is terrible anyway. But then they figured out that humans can become contaminated with ectoplasm. They decided that meant the entire town was under their jurisdiction. They've decided that means that no one in town counts as human anymore, that we don’t have rights, that they’re doing us a favor by not just exterminating the entire town like the law says.”

Danny leaned forward, putting his hands on the desk in front of Lois Lane. He looked right into her bright eyes and spoke seriously.

“When it was just ghosts under attack, I didn’t think anyone would care. I’ve tried calling the Justice League for help, but they’ve brushed me off. People need to know what’s happening. Anyone can become ecto-contaminated. You just have to be in the right place at the wrong time. It’s not right what’s happening to Amity, Miss Lane. I came to you because if anyone could get the world to listen, to believe, then it's got to be you.”

And Lois Lane smiled. It was a proud, eager smile. The kind of smile Danny had seen on Sam right after she convinced the school to serve a vegan lunch. He barely held back from shivering.

“Well then, Mr. Phantom.” Lois said, before tapping onto the recording app on her phone and starting a recording. “Let’s begin.”

[subjective-raven]

Hey everybody! I wrote a book! It comes out on September 17th 2024.

It’s a magical realism thriller anthology of four short stories and five poems! Each stand alone short story is set in a different season. Each story says something different about the human condition.

In “Dottie’s Final Day,” a reaper comes to Dottie Lyre in her garden. What does an elderly mother choose to do on her last day alive?

“The Door,” appears suddenly and disappears just as fast. What’s on the other side? Why won’t the door sit still? Jane’s going to find out.

Please share this with anyone you think might be interested! You can preorder the e-book on Amazon now for .99c and the paperback will be available SEPTEMBER 17th for $10.99! The price will go up a few dollars September 28th but I’ll also be getting a larger percentage of the sale.

I’ve been writing my entire life and this is my first published book so pleaseeee if you are reading this, this book is for anyone middle school to grave. It’s only like 142 pages and the cover is really pretty if you would rather just have a pretty trophy and leave me a review on Amazon like you read it and it was awesome then I also love you.

[chronicreativity]

masterlist of places to submit creative writing

it's intimidating thinking about submitting your precious work to judgement, but all the rejections are worth it when you finally get that one glowing acceptance email that puts your anxieties and impostor syndrome to bed. but where do you submit? it can be incredibly overwhelming trying to find the right sites/journals/zines to submit to so i thought i'd create a little collection of places i have found to submit to and i will update it whenever i find new discoveries.

PROSE ONLY

The Fiction Desk

They consider stories between 1k words and 10k words, paying 25 GBP per thousand words for stories they publish and contributors receive two complimentary paperback copies of the anthology. (A submission fee of 5 GBP for stories which sucks)

Extra Teeth

Works of fiction and creative nonfiction between 800 and 4,000 words receive a 140 GBP payment upon publication in the magazine as well as two copies that feature your work. If your work is selected to published online, you get 100 GBP instead. A Scottish based publication that also offers mentorships to budding writers. (Free)

Clarkesworld

Fantasy and sci-fi magazine accepting submissions of fiction from 1k to 22k words, paying 14 cent per word. Make sure you read their submissions page carefully, it gives you a good idea of what they're looking for and what will get you one of those disheartening rejection emails. (Free)

Granta

Open to unsolicited submissions of fiction and non-fiction. Unfortunately they do charge a 3.50 GBP fee for prose submissions, but they do offer 200 free submissions during every opening period (1 March - 31 March, 1 June - 30 June, 1 September - 30 September, 1 December - 31 December) to low income authors. No set minimum or maximum length, but most accepted works fall within 3,000 and 6,000 words.

Indie Bites

A fantasy short fiction publisher looking for clever hooks, strong characters and interesting takes on their issues' themes. Submissions should be no longer than 7,500 words. You get an honorarium of 5 GBP for each piece of yours that they publish - it's not much, but yay money! (Free)

Big Fiction

Novella publishers (7,500-20,000 words) looking for self-contained works of fiction that play with things like the linearity of narratives, perspective, structure and language. (Free)

Strange Horizons

Employing a broad definition of speculative fiction, they offer 10 cents a word for spec fiction up to 10,000 words but preferably around 5,000. (Free)

Fantasy and Science Fiction

They publish fiction up to 25,000 words in length, offering 8-12 cents per word upon publishing. (Free)

Fictive Dream

Short stories from 500 words to 2,500. They want writing with a contemporary feel that explores the human condition. (Free)

POETRY AND PROSE

eunoia review

Up to 10 poems in a single attachment, up to 15,000 words of fiction and creative non-fiction (can be multiple submissions amounting to that or a single piece). It's free to submit to, and they respond in 24 hours (I can vouch for that).

Confingo Magazine

Stories up to 5,000 words of any genre and poems (a max of three) up to 50 lines. Free to submit to and offer a 30 GBP payment to authors whose work is accepted.

Grain Magazine

Another Canadian based publication also supportive of marginalised identities. They accept poems (max. of six pages), fiction (max. of 3,500 words) or three flash fiction works that total 3.5k, literary nonfiction (3,500 words) and queries for works of other forms. All contributors are paid 50 CAD per page to a max of 250. Authors outside of Canada will need to pay a 5 CAD reading fee but they do offer a limited number of fee waivers if this impacts your ability to submit.

BTWN

An up-and-coming lit mag looking for diverse works that play with genres, breaks the rules and is a little weird. They want what typical lit mags reject. Stories up to 7,000 words, non-fiction up to 7,000 words and up to 4 poems totalling no more than 10 pages, hybrid work, comics/graphics up to 5 pages, original periodicals up to 14,000 words of prose or 20 pages of poetry. (Free)

Gutter

Accepting submission in spring and autumn work that challenges, re-imagines or undermines the status quo and pushes at the boundaries of form and function. If your contribution is chosen, you get 30 GBP for your work as well as a complimentary copy of the issue. Up to three poems (no more than 100 lines), fiction and essays (up to 2,500 words)

Whisk(e)y Tit

This one's worth checking out just for their logo. They're looking for fiction whether it's short stories, flash fiction or novel excerpts up to 7,000 words, up to 5 poems, up to 7,000 word essays, screenplays and stage plays (can be full works or excerpts up to 20 pages). (Free)

FOR QUEER AND MARGINALISED WRITERS

Plenitude magazine

A queer-focused Canadian literary magazine accepting poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. They define queer literature as create by queer people. (Free)

Lavender Review

Poetry written by and for lesbians. An annual Sappho's Prize in Poetry takes place every October. (Free)

AC|DC

"A journal for the bent", always open for submissions from queer writers of all experience levels. They lean towards dark and raw writing but are open to everything as long as it's not over 3,000 words. (Free)

Sinister Wisdom

A literary and art journal for lesbians of every background. They accept poetry (up to 5), two short stories or essays OR one longer piece (not exceeding 5,000 words), as well as book reviews (these must be pitched before they are submitted, (Free)

Queerlings

Open annually from Jan 1st to March 31st they publish short stories of any genre (up to 2,000 words), flash fiction/hybrid work (500 words), poetry (up to 3 poems per submission with a 20 line maximum on each) and creative non-fiction (2,000 words) written by queer writers. (Free)

underdog lit mag

Based in the UK, they focus on amplifying emerging and underrepresented writers. If you're female, POC, LGBTQ+, working-class or all of the above with a story of 100-3,500 words that fits their flavour of the month (the last flavour was Magical Realism) send it their way! (Free)

fourteen poems

London-based poetry publishers looking for the most exciting queer poets. You can send up to five emails to them within their deadlines and you get 25 GBP for every poem published.

Froglifter Journal

A press publishing the most dynamic and urgent queer writing. Poets send in 3 to 5 poems (max. 5 pages), writers send in up to 7,500 words of fiction or non-fiction or three flash fiction pieces, and cross-genre creators send in up to 20 pages within the submission windows March 1 to May 1 and September 1 to November 1. (Free)

OTHER SOURCES

Short Stories: X | X | X

Poetry: X

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

ancient chinese drinking culture is so funny to me. Imagine if i blew up one day and then wrote 100 freeverses extolling the virtues of ritalin

[holocene-sims]

❤️🍂🌰

[the-batacombs]

I wasn't going to read the Christmas anthology but I flipped it open and...John Stewart Green Lantern? Hellblazer? Robin!Jason? The SECRET SIX?!?

SECRET SIX IN MY DC CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY?!?

[cheschesterpossum]

guys, guys. New CITF lore drop. I changed a few things. I wrote this after eating two spoon of ground coffee.

I've been thinking about the possibility of aliens existing, and this thought crossed my mind. Now the universe is vast, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were other sentient lifeforms existing beside us. But if there's none? That would be quite a disappointment for some people. No other species, no other worldly friend, Humanity is awfully lonely. Someone or maybe multiple out there is going take it upon themselves to create aliens with a goal of creating an equal companion for humans.

I sound a lil insane, but think about it. Humanity done very insane stuff before, why wouldn't this be a possibility?

And yes, im adding this to my little AU. Finally managed to think of a more interesting backstory for this (i think).

↓ lore rambling below the cut

Ah yes, long long ago Humanity was the first to gain sentient. We've done the impossible and rise a top of the food chain. I know damn well a good chunk have dreamed of meeting aliens, learn their culture and technology, their superior mind-

And it's just a little, teeny tiny bit (very) disappointing that we're just... complete alone. We conquered the stars but at the cost of what? It's scary, to find out in the endless space, that us humans stand alone. Hopes of finding a companion for Earth or maybe even a superior species drop.

Almost. If we can't them, how about me we make them? Years upon years of evolutions and advancing, we can't stop just stop here now can we? So a new project of creating Humanity's equal start. In a pocket universe.

.... it is a lot more difficult than we thought.

It took us long enough to actually make one remotely gain consciousness. And it take even more to actually make one competent to thrive on it's own.

Some lead their own demise due to their sheer brute and strength, some far intelligent yet blinded by arrogance that they destroy themselves inside out, some couldn't even last a few hundreds years. Mistakes upon mistakes, fails upon fails.

Sometimes we resolve to man-made deity in hope it would create something that works. And even that would still be left with major issues.

How many failed attempts did God make when creating us?

As the project continue, at some point we would finally, after so so many attempts, manage to create something adequate. And you guess it, Cybertronians.

Admittedly, sentient vehicle robots sound strange. But if it work, it work. Despite being cyber species, they're made with a bit more resemblance toward humans. Reflecting some of our features, the way we walk, the way we talk. They have flaws, but so do we. And my goodness do their technologies feed our nerdiness. This is God creating humans in his image all over again

We should let them grow by themselves. Perhaps is our bias or the closeness we feel toward them, a bit of guidance wouldn't hurt, we can just left them on their own device after we're done? So when saw Cybertron in shambles, we did just that, lending a helping hand. We've been there before after all.

Fast forward, after leaving the pocket universe unsupervised momentarily. We came back to check, yeah... it's mayhem down there. This time Humanity would stand back to watch, and watch, and we got impatient. The Decepticon-Autobot war has been going on nonstop without an end, and we get worried it'd end up in the same result as the past attempts.

Again, we went down there. Maybe they remember us, maybe they don't at all. However we'd stay longer, we'd do more than just interfering; we're making a connection, a bond between two equals.

It been very lonely at the top.

[thelastharbinger]

I need us all to be more urgently concerned with the current state of journalism.

[mueritos]

I just wanted to say thanks so much for the lovely tags on my FAHAH post and I'm so happy you enjoyed it! Also, I adore your art so much!!

oh my gosh hello Lorian!! im happy i could spread the word on FAHAH, I have devoured it over the past few days and have truly fallen in love with the story and characters!! (also thank you wahhh!!)

the boys got stuck in my head so much that i drew them! hope you dont mind if I put them below :)

fiddling with their faces and getting used to their lovely designs ^-^

a lovely kiss :3

and the boys on the beloved Banu :)

thanks for writing such an awesome story!! im excited to keep reading and pls check out @longlostlorian work!! <3

[affetrollkarl]

Aaah! I got pakidge :D

They are Twilight's List by Kits,

Mendacity by Dromicosuchus,

Injuring Eternity / The Last Train Home by @rarilight

Compatī by Corejo

and The Twilight Effect by @evelili

Thank you all for writing such amazing stories! I'm looking forward to re-reading them all (and reading the new and complete version when it comes to Compatī) ♥

And if someone is looking to get some print for themselves, you can find these and many more at Ponyfeather Publishing!

[lakuronekobaka]

hey, did you guys know there was already a venezuelan miku and, like, it's from one of the miku expo? at least the song associated with it is!

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Additional info:

2. this was published as news on Sparks' website:

3. Alvin and the Chipmunks

4. Everyone has seen it, but anyway. The Russia Today Report video.

6. When I'm Sixty-Four (Bonus videos: you may also enjoy this version performed by Russell and the band Baby Lemonade and this performance of All You Need Is Love where Russell shares the stage with Jarvis Cocker and The Residents, among others.)

[Edit: dangit I forgot an option. Sparks also joined Facebook in 2007.]

[braodrickpatrick-1]

FORBIDDEN LOVE So, if loving you is forbidden then let me commit treason. Because loving you was everything I was missing before I met you. You see The world will try to tell you things about love. Yet none of those things compares to you. Nor can the definition of love compete against you. Nor can Aphrodite herself stand next to you. So, if loving you is forbidden then call me a forbidden lover. Because nothing compares to love and be loved by you.

[helenofblackthorns]

I feel like one thing we can take away from this kickstarter is that Cassandra Clare will never be done with the Shadowhunters universe. like literally all these new short stories come from the fact she took a six month "break" from writing shadowhunters lmao