Month: December 2025

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 The Psychology of Faustian Bargains By PD Alleva   Are you willing to trade your soul? I’ve got a…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 This is a digitally-edited 1990s-style painting which, if I remember rightly, was inspired by a random mood/daydream last year.…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Said to be cursed after torturing a calf, the butcher apprentice is now cursed to haunt the old butcher…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Submission Window: January 1st – 14th, 2026Payment: Poetry: $50 per poem, Flash: $80, Short fiction/non-fiction: $0.08 per wordTheme: Original…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 CW: Pregnancy/childbirth, miscarriages/abortion, blood/bodily fluids. The initial spark for this story was a writing prompt I saw online about…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9               Well, after only getting three hours of sleep one day in early…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Deadline: December 15th, 2025Payment: $25Theme: Holiday Horror(Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc.)! Do you want to improve your chance of acceptance?…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9               Well, I thought that I’d talk about making art from imagination. Because,…

https://itchystraitsbuilder.com/emh5gxdh?key=e1916cbd192d21f326efd401bba4dfa9 Submission Window: January 1st – 25th, 2026Payment: $5Theme: Dark fiction, Serialized dark fiction, Creative non-fiction At the Stygian Lepus Magazine,…