Guidelines: What is Fifty-Two Stitches?

We're stuffed. Fifty-Two Stitches is closed to new submissions for 2009.

First of all, this publication is one year of weekly "horror bits"-flash fiction stories with a dark theme. Each Sunday evening, from January 2009-December 2009, we will post a new story. In the late summer/fall of 2010, all collected stories shall be published in trade paperback format.

We are interested in chills, crawling flesh, psychological, creature, or supernatural horror and dark fantasy. We are not interested in a 500 word description of disembowelment or detailed descriptions of torture and/or rape.

Word Count: up to 700 (approximately, i.e., 715 is okay-800 is not)

Format: .rtf-rich text format; no other formats accepted

Payment: $3.00 via Paypal upon publication on the web; discount on print copies for the anthology

Rights: first serial rights & reprint rights for the anthology

Multiple submissions: up to three

Simultaneous submissions: okay, but let us know

Reprints: no thanks

Cover letter: not necessary

Response time: ASAP (form rejections will most likely be sent)

Reading period: begins November 2008-ends after we've selected 52 bits

Any questions? Okay, start writing...

Send your best bits to 52.stitches(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with the @ of course)

Please take a moment to