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Send us:

• Update (6/25): Essays. We have not received any essay submissions yet for this issue.
• Seasonal/holiday (October-March)
  • Halloween/Solstice
  • Thanksgiving
  • December Holidays (esp. Christmas ghost stories ala MR James/BBC)
  • New Year
• Diversity
• Travel/place writing (esp. outside the United States)

Do not send us:

• Update (7/30): Religious content (especially humor), even if the story/essay is not religious.
• Update (7/30): Stories about returning to an old home or running into an old friend after years away.
• Anything sexist, racist, or homophobic. (Yes, this needs to be said.)
• Fables, morality tales, stories intended to teach life lessons.
• Conspiracies.
• Family drama, break-ups/divorce, and “my partner is cheating.”
• Stories where the status quo needs to be disrupted, but everyone decides to pretend everything is okay.