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Resending ’cause the submissions link didn’t work first time around (I shouldn’t be let loose round technology). Following the succcess of our first anthology, the Call of the Wyld, we’re gearing up for a couple of new anthologies. So today we’re launching a call for steampunk stories for Runs Like Clockwork to publish in printContinue reading “Steampunk submissions call”

Resending ’cause the submissions link didn’t work first time around (I shouldn’t be let loose round technology). Following the succcess of our first anthology, the Call of the Wyld, we’re gearing up for a couple of new anthologies. So today we’re launching a call for steampunk stories for Runs Like Clockwork to publish in printContinue reading “Steampunk submissions call”

For our 35th weekly dose of free flash fiction head over to the website for Hearken by Craig Aitchison. Always listen to the voices in your head…

Submerged by Adria Bailton is this week’s Wyld Flash, free, today, on the website: “They pull me down, the hands that come up unseen from the lake while I float on my back…”

Today’s Wyld Flash is Last Wish by Fija Callaghan – be careful what you wish for. Free today on the site. Last Wish appears alongside ten other (much longer) stories in Wyldblood Magazine # 2 – out on Wednesday but available for order now in print or PDF/MOBI/epub. A stifling obligation—a genie’s duplicity—a stranded astronaut—anContinue reading “Wyld Flash 33 – Last Wish”

Some very strange things come from the sea – and not all of them are bad. Salt and Moonlight, by Melion Traverse, is this week’s Wyld Flash – read it for free now on our website http://www.wyldblood.com

In the last of our teaser stories for our Call of the Wyld werewolf anthology – Walking Dog by David J. Rank shows us just why the park’s maybe not the best place to be in the dark. Live, free and on the website now.

There’s always an odd sock too. Where do all the socks go? But that’s not what this story is about, because we’ve taken it straight from our brand-new werewolf anthology – The Call of the Wyld. So what happened to the rest of the rabbit? #FreeFiction from Holly Barratt – live now on the website.

Wer’e building up to the launch of our werewolf anthology – The Call of the Wyld – with A Werewolf’s Lament by Holly Rae Garcia. Find it free here, and if that whets your appetite, you can preorder The Call of the Wyld here – it’s unchained on Wednesday February 17th (a full moon, obviously,Continue reading “Wyld Flash 29 – A Werewolf’s Lament”

We’re accepting novels again – send us your best! Speculative and literary fiction – however you define it. 50-100,000 words. Go to our submissions page for more details.

We’re reopening for the submission of novels in five days time. We’re very keen to find some fine fiction, so gear up – 50-100,000 words of fantasy, science fiction, well written literary or just a little weird.

Trapped, alone, in the dark, where evil lurks. For all eternity? Cornerstone, by MK Roney – our 28th Wyld Flash. Free, frightening and available right now – https://wyldblood.com/cornerstone/

“In the underside of her skirt, she stitches the Midgard Serpent; Fenris the wolf. A draugar with three red stitches to show the blood dripping down his chin.” So you know where this story’s going! The Needlecraft Guide to Averting Doom by Malina Douglas is our 27th free flash story, available on the website rightContinue reading “Wyld Flash 27 – The Needlecraft Guide to Averting Doom”

For another excellent review of Wyldblood Magazine # 1 check out Out of This World SFF Reviews, who were kind enough to say very nice things about our opening issue. Our fine writers are impressing again!

We do like a good review – and this is a good review. Click here to read what the lovely people at the Witty and Sarcastic Book Club had to say about the first issue of Wyldblood Magazine – available now from us and from Amazon

Our latest free flash fiction is now up and live on our website. Tova Hope-Liel’s Palingenesis is a dark story of superstition and the supernatural. Perfect for a cold, January Friday. Also check out our inaugural issue of Wyldblood Magazine with eleven great fantasy and science fiction stories – now available.

Brand new and full of the smell of fresh ink, Wyldblood Magazine #1 is out and ready to purchase in print or digitally. Eleven fantastic stories of science and the supernatural – ice princesses and intrigue, ghosts and wizards, aliens and artists, all in 84 tightly packed pages (plus a bright, shiny cover). All forContinue reading “Wyldblood Magazine is out now!”

Today’s Wyld Flash #freefiction is The Silence of the Owl by Sam Winner. Scary when it hoots – terrifying when it doesn’t.

Wyldblood Magazine #1 is out on 15th January. Eleven stories, one interview, loads of book reviews and a bright, shiny cover. We’ve got frogs and dogs, doll’s houses and crows, soul eaters and graffiti artists, ice sculptures and coal miners, wizards and savants and a cyclist on a mission. Fantasy, science fiction and a touchContinue reading “Wyldblood Magazine #1 out Friday!”

Today’s Wyld Flash is an edgy, dark take on a familiar story. Read Burn, by Jennifer Loring for a tiny dose of morning shivers. #FreeFlash every Friday at http://www.wyldblood.com.