November 15th, 2009 / 5:28 pm
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New Love Stories Magazine is tight

lovestoriesI would like to begin a bounty pool available to the first person who publishes a story in New Love Stories Magazine, the only stipulation being the story also include baby destruction. I’m throwing in a hundred, any others who are interested in joining the prize pool, please announce. First to publication wins the promised pool, in addition to my amazement and the beauty of the light.

I have to say, I love the submission guidelines here:

For women over the age of twenty. It is designed to invoke in the reader a wide range of emotions relating to love and romance. Each issue will contain a well rounded mix of stories of loving female/male relationships that will stimulate the readers� imagination. Adult women of all ages will relate to and live vicariously through the escapades of the female lead in each story. Also included in each issue will be a topical selection of cartoons and poetry.

Is it a weird testament to the freakshow that is writing submissions that, according to Duotrope, people who submitted to New Love Stories also submitted to: StoryQuarterly, The Battered Suitcase, Bartleby-Snopes, The McCroskey Memorial Internet Playhouse, 42 Magazine, First Edition, Stone’s Throw Magazine, Futurismic, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review

Duotrope should start featuring spreads of writers’ mailing desks and mailboxes, I would look at that.

Damn people be crazy as fuck.

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26 Comments

  1. Roxane

      I will take take this challenge. What a lovely magazine cover from 1976.

  2. Roxane

      I will take take this challenge. What a lovely magazine cover from 1976.

  3. darby

      i got nothing against love

  4. darby

      i got nothing against love

  5. christopher higgs

      They pay $300.00 upon publication! I am doing this right now. Look out women over the age of twenty, I’m putting my usual word scramble on the back burner and pulling out the Barry White.

  6. christopher higgs

      They pay $300.00 upon publication! I am doing this right now. Look out women over the age of twenty, I’m putting my usual word scramble on the back burner and pulling out the Barry White.

  7. Ken Baumann

      $100 from me

  8. Ken Baumann

      $100 from me

  9. Rachel B Glaser

      ill give this a try baby destruction means abortion? or any sort of destructive baby idea?

  10. Rachel B Glaser

      ill give this a try baby destruction means abortion? or any sort of destructive baby idea?

  11. reynard

      i’ll donate a raging case of syphilis, not from me, from my… friend

  12. reynard

      i’ll donate a raging case of syphilis, not from me, from my… friend

  13. joseph

      Naturally….

      …a woman’s baby is decapitated in a car accident and the man responsible feels so bad about the accident he consoles her by ramming her with his picturesque meat How Stella Got Her Groove Back Style in a such a way that the reader can live vicariously.

  14. joseph

      Naturally….

      …a woman’s baby is decapitated in a car accident and the man responsible feels so bad about the accident he consoles her by ramming her with his picturesque meat How Stella Got Her Groove Back Style in a such a way that the reader can live vicariously.

  15. Blake Butler

      abortion would be cheap. i mean someone has to physically destroy a baby

  16. Blake Butler

      a non in utero come to term i’m alive i eat food and scream a lot style baby for you Xtians

  17. Blake Butler

      abortion would be cheap. i mean someone has to physically destroy a baby

  18. Blake Butler

      a non in utero come to term i’m alive i eat food and scream a lot style baby for you Xtians

  19. Clapper

      I can’t tell you how much I love the idea of this mags’ editors being inundated with submissions of baby-killing stories.

  20. Clapper

      I can’t tell you how much I love the idea of this mags’ editors being inundated with submissions of baby-killing stories.

  21. Cami

      joseph is a spoiler.

  22. Cami

      joseph is a spoiler.

  23. damon

      my money would be on roxane, though the baby destruction may be a deal breaker.

  24. damon

      my money would be on roxane, though the baby destruction may be a deal breaker.

  25. Richard

      damn…this made me laugh and cringe – great combination – but heck $300 is $300, and who doesn’t write a little soft-core now and then

  26. Richard

      damn…this made me laugh and cringe – great combination – but heck $300 is $300, and who doesn’t write a little soft-core now and then