A change to our guidelines
We’ve raised our maximum length for stories from from 2000 to 3000 words. Not because we don’t love the stories we’re already getting, but in hopes this will give the site even more breadth, and will create opportunities for those slightly longer stories that fall through the cracks between print and web journals.
Going higher than 3000 words is a definite possibility for the future, but that might be too taxing for our currently modest stable of readers… or, to be more accurate, for our current modestly unstable reader. This seems a workable compromise between keeping up with our queue, and getting a wider sampling of stories, so we’ll give it a try and see how it works.
Feel free to share your thoughts about it in the comments below.
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From Chapter 37:
It made the local news. Robert did not see it, but heard about it at work on Monday. The news crews had arrived too late to see Robert save the day or the culprit led away in shackles, but they had filmed the front of the house where it happened, and the house where Frank Taylor lived and the various neighbors of both who did not suspect a thing.
Necessary News
We may be only electrons ourselves, but two recent efforts at getting stories into the world in innovative, tangible ways have caught our attention: Ryan Boudinot’s geocaching project Lost and Found, and James Kaelan’s Zero Emission Book.
Contributor Robert Kloss recently posted this remix of a story by Laura van den Berg, and is looking for partners to swap remixed stories with.
Wolf Parts, a limited edition minibook by contributor Matt Bell, is now available for pre-order from Keyhole Press.
Contributor Robert Kloss thinks about 2009.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Million Writers Award.
Fantastic! I think this is, as you say, a wonderful way to bridge the gap between Web and print journals. Too much of Web-based fiction is flash-centered – this is a positive step forward.