Mari’s Midnight Garden

I gathered knowledge as an innocent, starting from an unusual zero. - Robert Aickman (The Attempted Rescue, 1966)

I realized as I drifted off to sleep last night the reason I’ve been having problems with the scene I’ve been trying to write since this time last month. I caused the wrong person to become ill after the funeral. I had the wrong person fall beneath the psychological affects of this. :grumble: So now I get to go in and rework twenty-two pages. Fun times ahead!!

But at least I got the research completed and now understand plastic bags on a more intimate level than ever before. Right? Right?

“Oy Vey” Phrase of the Day:

Before anyone could lift their flatware or open their flatware to speak, Lyle stood.

cover letter - important! include one! make it professional!
multiple submissions - if the guidelines say we don’t accept them, don’t send them
body of work inside body of e-mail - if the guidelines say this isn’t acceptable, please attach your work

http://www.apexbookcompany.com/submissions/

Crosspost from Apex:

I’m all packed and ready to go except for my comb, shower comb, and toothbrush. And breaking down and packing away the lappy after breakfast in the morning.

And away we go! :sallies forth:

“Oy Vey” Phrase of the day:

Tears flooded his own small eyes

What?

disclaimer: poetry and fiction snippet content are my own original content. unauthorized reproduction of any post content, without prior written permission, is in direct violation of applicable copyright laws.

Today has been the most long-assed day in the history of long-assed days! Or at least it feels like it. Then again, I’m not a good waiter and never have been. At this late date, I can’t see that changing, either.

But can Friday get here any later??

I feel like I have a blue million things I should be doing and need to be doing between now and Friday morning. Fact is, I don’t. All I have to do is do the laundry in the morning and pack my bag - put in the essentials after I get up Friday morning - and then wait for Jason to call…

Maybe it’s because HyperiCon is a week later this year than the last three years. :snaps fingers: I bet that’s it. I’m just restless. Usually by this time before the con, I have a list a mile long and a yard wide of things I need to accomplish before I leave town. But this year, nada. Maybe that’s making it worse. lol

By this time tomorrow, I’ll be bouncing off the walls. boing, boing, boing!!

Submission Guidelines: THE WORLD IS DEAD
Edited by Kim Paffenroth

Permuted Press seeks short stories for its new zombie anthology, The World Is Dead, to be edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Kim Paffenroth and featuring tales from Jack Ketchum, David Wellington, and Gary Braunbeck.

Stories should be set significantly after the dead rise (though of course reference can be made back to that event). The point of the stories should be to investigate and elaborate the ways people (or zombies) have developed to cope with the new situation of the living dead–not just strategies and tactics for killing the dead, but the kinds of rituals, institutions, and social structures that you envision in this kind of post-apocalyptic world.

Reading Period: We will read stories from August 1, 2008 to August 31, 2008. DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS BEFORE AUGUST 1. THEY WILL BE DELETED UNREAD.

Payment: Payment will be $0.01/word USD ($0.005/word for reprints), based on the final, edited word count from Microsoft Word rounded to the nearest hundred words, plus one contributor’s copy.

Submission guidelines: Stories should be 2000-8000 words, standard format, with the author’s name, email address, and word count in the upper left-hand corner of the first page. Stories should be sent as email attachments in Microsoft Word to theworldisdead@permutedpress.com.

Return time: Rejections will be sent ASAP; if the story makes the first cut, it will be kept until the end of the reading period.

Dr. Kim Paffenroth
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Writer of Apocalyptic, Zombie Horror
Visit my blog at gotld dot blogspot dot com