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We are currently CLOSED to fiction submissions to our DEMENTED MOTHER’S DAY Day issue 2026. Deadline for story submissions is APRIL 26, 2026.
Deadline for our “Something in the Water” Contest is June 26, 2026.
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This page was last updated on: 4/27/26
Milk Teeth
Best Mother’s Day Ever
La Llorona’s Daughter
Leapfrog
What comes after the test
Black Fog Holler
A Surgeon’s Guide to Surviving the Day
Afterlife F.M.
Outhouse Confessional
The Execution
A Proposal
Lake Malaren
Visions
Mammy
The Second Cradle
Patches
Disease Vector
Rainbows
Whispers Beneath the Surface
The Fisherman
On the Strange Proclivities of Bipedal Amphibians
Passing On
Remembering
Signal
I Blame the Mother
The Duke
For My Blood
Cephaloids
Predator
The Goldfish
Curfew
Untitled by Person
Paulie’s Harvey’s Mom
The Simulation
The Fairy Tale of an Angry Woman
We are Now Approaching
Ways to Communicate
Risk of Elopement
Almost Perfect
Between Tuesdays
Sent
Bitter Milk
The Uncanny
The Human with Bird Eyes
Dormarth
Dear Mr Mayor
Infallible Subtraction
Rope
Trophy
Obedient
The Soul that Withers the Moon
The Black Womb
Winky Dink
Lillian, Not Lily
Choke
Unexpected Aspects of Fatigue
Unsettled
Kanthalbari
Gideon’s Bible
The Night Bus
There’s a Cat Behind this Door
Silent Birth
Bunnies
Rosemary’s Vow
A Century in Stasis
Honey, Please
The Contract
Hot Chocolate
Inside the Igloo
WENDELL’S HOUSE OF ODDITIES: JINGLES
Winter in the Poison Garden
The Season of My Becoming
Hush, Little Baby…
Go See Mom
Birthday
The Ghost Cat
God’s Servant, Jolene
Djinn and Tonic
untitled (Candeleva)
The Mercy of Whales
Stitched in Moonlight and Saltwater
Water Spirits
Bottom of the Pond
Grow Your Mind
American Zombie Warrior
Window
The Ball
The One
The Search
Devils Dressed in White
Frankie’s Madeleine Moment
Willow Cottage
The Speckled Rock
Knock Knock