You are watching a meeting between a group of the world’s most powerful people when a bomb suddenly goes off. The shock is apparent but let’s retell this story. There is a bomb underneath the table. The timer is casting a dim red glow as it slowly ticks, ticks, ticks closer to zero. The world leaders gathered together continue their meeting, talking over the faint beeping as the times goes from five, to four, to three, to two, to one, and then to nothing at all. The same thing the table and the leaders are reduced to.
That is the classic Hitchcockian definition of suspense and this month we are asking you to channel your best inner horror writer. We are accepting submissions of your darkest pieces, spookiest stories, and your most paralyzing prose. The top 3 submissions will be recognized on the announcements and be published on our website. Channel everything you are scared to write. Because if it scares you, it’ll terrify someone else.
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