Your Mom's Basement is doing an anthology of original fiction.

Starting July 10, we will be reading submissions for our first ever anthology, It Came from the Basement. This will be an online anthology linked from our front page (www.yourmomsbasement.com). We may also decide to produce a print version if one makes sense.

The theme of this anthology is, simply, "the basement". Your story can be about anything but should include a basement or something in a basement or something that came out of a basement or anything relating to a basement. In an effort to provide enjoyable content for our audience, we will be reading with an eye toward genre fiction, however non-genre work will be considered. The bottom line is, if it's good, and our readers will like it, we'll take it.

The details:

Stories of 1000-8000 words.

Reading period will begin July 10 and go through August 31.

Submissions should be sent to "submissions AT yourmomsbasement DOT com".

Because we have a limited budget, we can only pay $5 per accepted story*. It's not professional rates, but it is better than nothing. And to sweeten the pot, one story will be chosen as our feature story and the writer of that story will be paid $50.

Anything sent before July 10 will be deleted unread. The same for anything received after August 31.

*We ask for exclusive web rights for one year. After that time you are free to submit the story elsewhere, however we reserve the right to keep the story up on our website.