Two Sentence Horrors
Can you terrify in such few words? Make people’s skin crawl by that last sentence? Surprise them out of the blue? Make the reader feel safe at first then scared by the end?If so, I want your two sentence horror stories!
DEADLINE:
August 31st, 2023
WORDCOUNT:
Two Sentences
CHARITY ANTHOLOGY:
Royalties from the anthology will go to Mind, a mental health charity
WHAT THEY'RE SEEKING:
There is no theme to the collection, as the stories are so short, so go wild!
Has to be two sentences – you can be cheeky with long sentences (use those commas and semi-colons) but not too cheeky...
The genre is horror, you can use any sub-genres of horror and also mix other genres in there too – just as long as the core of it is horror
Surprise me, I find the best two sentence stories are unexpected, weird and wild. If you need some inspiration, I recently learned that there is a whole reddit thingy of them:
Don’t self-reject! Since the stories are short, I need quite a lot – rejections will mostly happen if you don’t follow the guidelines or you've written a story that's too similar to one I've already accepted (if this happens, you can submit another story if you would like)
REPRINTS: [YES/NO]
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: [YES/NO]
Just e-mail twosentencehorrors@hotmail.com if it gets accepted elsewhere so I can congratulate you
MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: [YES/NO]
(you can send them all in the same e-mail) but I’m only excepting one per author.
EXTRA INFORMATION:
Please note that some authors have been invited to contribute, the rest of the anthology will be made up by submitting authors.
Invited authors include:
Voices from the Mausoleum
Cat Voleur
Casey Masterson
Luna Rey Hall
Aquino Loayza
Radar DeBoard
Yolanda Sfetsos
Sophie Ingley
SUBMITTING:
Email submissions to twosentencehorrors@hotmail.com
Include your name/pen name, bio* and your story in the body of the e-mail.
Don’t worry about any sort of cover letter – a simple “hi, ~insert story~, bye” is fine.
Titles to stories are optional - whatever you prefer/think works best with your story.
*if you’ve never written a bio before, don’t worry too much about this, you can leave it blank for now – I can help with this later if you would like 😊
TIMELINE:
This anthology will be published in Spring of 2024
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