Loose Change

Short story accepted by Rotten Leaves Magazine

Magazine: Rotten Leaves Magazine  

Rotten Leaves is a literary magazine created in 2009 by Christopher J. Dwyer and Axel Taiari, out of a strong desire to see the fiction we love published and read across the globe. We are looking for mostly dark fiction. What it means is that we are not here to read Disney-like stories, sitcoms, or your diary entry thinly disguised as a horribly vague and pseudo-deep coming of age story where nothing happens. We want fiction that will grab the reader by the guts and won’t let go. Make things happen. We want events. And events doesn’t necessarily mean big explosions. It can be internal changes or emotional earthquakes. We want originality and quality, and we want your work to be as polished and precise as possible. While the editors have a special place in their blackened hearts for noir, science-fiction, horror, and any kind of slipstream, we are always pleased to see other genres take us to new places. A line has to be drawn, though. Although we enjoy dark stories, please understand that nonsensical, shock-value violence does not interest us.

Missing You - Short Story, Dark/dialogue-only, approximately 480 words, to be included in Issue #2 in the next couple of months.

Humility reminder: Prior to this, Missing You had been rejected twice.


Current status: 58 items in 74 submissions.  No new markets attempted (I am at a conference, suffering a slow death by Powerpoint for the week)