All responses have been sent to those that submitted work for our first magazine issue. We received nearly 1200 submissions. If you have not heard from us, please send us a message at thephantompulsesubmissions@gmail.com.
Thank you everyone!
Stoked to be able to share that we will be launching our first issue at a higher pay rate for original fiction than we initially anticipated and looking forward to getting the mag out there for everyone to read soon 🥰
Exciting news! We are increasing our pay for original fiction from $0.03/word to $0.05/word starting immediately.
We have sent the majority of our submission responses and intended to have them completed by today; however, we are a bit delayed and will now have all submissions responded to by April 5th. Thank you all for your patience and wonderful stories!
Reading Update: We've been steadily reading the 1,150 submissions we received. If you submitted a story, you'll hear back by the end of the month. Thank you for sending us your stories! 🖤
Today is the last day! Don’t self-reject. Send us your story before midnight Pacific Time.
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Shout out time!
This climbing horror makes looking down at where you’ve been the least of your concerns…
‘Ascension’ by @authorplm.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social’s Issue 152
Our submission window is open for 10 more days!
Send us horror stories that seep through skin and settle in the bones.
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This week's shout out comes a day late, but the story is evergreen: Check out @abigailkemske.bsky.social's "The Earth Inside Us" in the latest issue of The Dark.
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-earth-in...
Shout out time! Katherine Quevedo's story "The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills" captures a fun moment at the end of civilization and reminds us its the simple pleasures we should cherish. Give it a read at smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-sa... where it has been reprinted. @smallwondersmag.com
We’re nearly halfway through our submission window! Join our discord for updates on how may submissions we’ve received so far ☠️
discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf
We’re nearly halfway through our submission window! Join our discord for updates on how may submissions we’ve received so far ☠️
discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf
This week’s shout out is for @samanthamurray.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! We loved her story “The Stars You Can’t See By Looking Directly” and the flawless cascading of imagery and thoughts that delivers you to stars at the end of the world. clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_01_26/
A quick FYI. We are renaming our "story of the week" posts to "shout out of the week".
Our weekly shout out goes to Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social and her story "We Used to Wake to Song" from @apexmag.bsky.social. Harrowing family relationships wrapped in water's inevitable pull. We loved it!
Week one of submissions has been incredible! Looking forward to more.
In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
www.patreon.com/14807269/join
Check it out: the story of the week! "I Think She is Starting to Suspect Something" by @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social issue #22 is a slinking tale of Yearning that'll leave you looking askance at the faces of those you know and love
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
We are open for submissions! Send us your original horror fiction up to 3000 words, reprints up to 5000 words, and chilling cover art until February 14th. thephantompulse.com
The haunt begins today.
The Phantom Pulse opens for submissions tomorrow! Check our guidelines and instructions for sending stories and art at thephantompulse.com
Last Story of The Week before we open for subs: “Who Are You Wearing?” by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. We enjoyed this balanced bite of a story that picks at and peels back the layers of human autonomy and family until all you see is the exoskeleton that moves you.
Love when ppl turn to goo and debris 😍
It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
One month stands between us and your stories. Join our discord to discuss and be in community with other writers of horror 💀 discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf
SOTW: “The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows” by Malena Salazar Maciá in The Deadlands. This story of twisted mathematics, the dying breaths of a mother, and odd inheritance had us calculating our love for the inexplicable weird and the hope in horror.
@thedeadlands.com
Our story of the week is “Things I Don’t Tell My Sister” by MM Schreier in Factor Four Magazine.
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
We’ve been reading ancient tomes (recently published mags) in search of eldritch truths (Friday’s story of the week). What have you read this week?