Affiliated with [[Worldbuilding Magazine]] — the EiC is Emory (aka Turnip). - dark speculative fiction - flash fiction: 100-1000 words - short stories: unk - $5 flat for flash fiction [Submission Guidelines](https://www.inkbloodbooks.com/the-drop-submissions) ## Looking For Strong and fresh worldbuilding, tight prose, slow burns, purposeful pacing, original or rare creatures, unusual framing devices, small-scale plots, and diverse characters. "Literary"-style stories and genre mash-ups (Science Fantasy, for example) are also of interest! ## Hard Sells - "It was Earth all along!" - Run-of-the-mill horror devices (Dracula, zombies, Frankenstein's monster, werewolves, demons, ghosts, haunted dolls, creepy children, serial killers...) - Pseudo-medieval-or-Renaissance-England settings - Extreme violence or explicit sexual content that doesn't have a good reason to be there (and even then, we do have limits) - Stories originally written for a themed publication or contest - Near-Future Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Surreal Fiction, Parody or Comedy - Common retellings (Cinderella, Percy Jackson, Beowulf) ## Don't Submit - Works that are not speculative fiction - Glorified violence, slasher fic, hateful or discriminatory content, or pornography - Romanticization or exploitation of mental illness - Stories torn from your RPG campaign, trunk stories, or repackaged fanfiction - Stories in which the male protagonist is comparable to Gaston or the female protagonist is Not Like Other Girls - Witchcraft is Satanism! Or, Paganism is Satanism! - Nazis (Space Nazis, Wizard Nazis, Neo-Nazis, Nazis but they're communist...you get the idea) - \[Religion or Political Belief\] is the cause of all our strife/is the only thing that can save us! ## Microfiction ```dataview table status, location, year, length, pitch from "80 Stories" where contains(market, "Inkblood") where length = "microfiction" sort year desc ```