Saturday, December 13, 2008

Another New Market

Stopped by the Out of the Gutter blog to see what was going on and found that they're starting a new flash site to replace Muzzle Flash. I posted their guidelines below but here's the url if you're looking for more http://theflashfictionoffensive.blogspot.com/ and if the links don't happen to come through. I'll post their link to the right in the zine column. Pass the word.


WELCOME
This site is here to fill the vacuum left by the sudden disappearance of DZ Allen's Muzzle Flash, but also to be an excellent place in its own right for sharing hardcore, hilarious and otherwise stimulating fiction around and under 700 words.
As with Muzzle Flash, all the stories posted here will be eligible for inclusion in the opening section of Out of the Gutter Magazine's next issue, and, as with Muzzle Flash, we encourage readers and writers to post their reactions to the flash fiction that appears here, because the author will then post their reactions to your work, and the interaction and reciprocal commentary will make the experience more fulfilling for everyone. It's the right thing to do.
The boss here is Rey A. Gonzalez, contributor to the infamous Out of the Gutter 2, assistant editor in subsequent issues, and a hell of a writer in his own right. We want to get this bastard underway asap, so send your submissions to Rey here, and please observe the following formatting guidelines:
Story title and author name up top.
Single space your work and do NOT indent paragraphs. Put one space between paragraphs. The purpose of this is to make the work easy to past onto the site and not to cause us to waste a lot of time making it look pretty and begin to hate you in the process.
Also give some thought to grammar. If the story fits the bill, that is, if it isn't a vague, flowery reminiscence about grandma's last days, we want to put it up--but we may not have time to give it the fine-toothed comb treatment.
Finally, follow your story with your bio, just how you'd like it to appear, with any links you want etc.
As for the style and subject matter, if you're familiar with what happens at Out of the Gutter and what happened at Muzzle Flash you probably already have a pretty good idea. If not, read the OOTG Submission Guidelines, and Rey will get his own spin on it up here pretty soon.
That's it. Get writing.

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