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Going on Indefinite Hiatus
Hi gang, So some of you might’ve been expecting this post for a while, but we’re going on indefinite hiatus (which is a nice way of saying, “we’re probably closed for good, unless something extraordinary happens”). For the foreseeable future, there’s going to be no more Basement Stories. This is for two reasons: 1. Obviously we cannot keep up with the submissions we’re getting, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that we’re...
Basement Stories #4 is Up!
And it’s beautiful. Go. Look. Read. Table of Contents Read More
Fiction Submissions Closed, New Readers
At my last count, we have around four hundred stories waiting to be read. This is both amazingly wonderful and sort of intimidating, so for the time being, fiction will be closed to submissions. This is only temporary, and we’ll open fiction back up for you all to submit on September 15th. Poetry, nonfiction, and art will not be closed to submissions, so send away! On the subject of fiction, for the past month or so I’ve had a hand in reading stories from our two...
Issue #4 Table of Contents
Issue #4 (the resurrection issue) will be published on August 30th. Fiction: “TimeSnip” by Cat Rambo “Sugarplum Karma” by Stephen Blount “A Void Wrapped in a Smile” by Tim Pratt Poetry: “Dawn” by WC Roberts “Remorse and the Pariah” by Michael DeLuca “Birthing Monsters” by Siobhan Carroll “Dreams After the Storm” by Eliza Victoria Nonfiction: “And All My Idols Are Angels, with the Faces...
Looking for a Few Good Women and Men
As has become ridiculously obvious to us recently, we need more people to run this baby than just the two of us. So, we’re looking for a few slush readers – mostly to help read fiction (as we get about five or six times the amount of short stories as we do poetry). This would, of course, be a volunteer position, unless we suddenly all become millionares. It’d take maybe five-ish hours of your time every week. If you’d like to read for us, please send the...
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