Plugs

Luc Reid writes about the psychology of habits at The Willpower Engine. His new eBook is Bam! 172 Hellaciously Quick Stories.

Jonathan Wood’s story “Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle” from Electric Velocipede 15/16 is available online.

Ken Brady’s latest story, “Walkers of the Deep Blue Sea and Sky” appears in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology, edited by Jay Lake and Frank Wu.

Read Rudi’s story “Detail from a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch” at Behind the Wainscot.

The Daily Cabal’s Third Anniversary: Come Up with a Celebration Idea and Be Immortalized

by Rudi Dornemann

March 26, 2010 will mark the Daily Cabal’s third anniversary of posting brand new, very short, often wildly speculative fiction every single weekday, come Hell or high water, with about 800 stories posted to date. And we’re going to celebrate!

But we have no idea how, so there’s a contest.

THE CHALLENGE: We invite all Daily Cabal readers, supporters, wanderers, stumble-uponers, nay-sayers, and enemies to comment here with ideas for how we Cabalists can best express our elation at having survived another year. Some kind of flash fiction writing would probably be involved, but apart from that it’s all open to whatever you can imagine. Give us a writing challenge, a theme, a restriction, a process, a warning, a command …

THE PRIZE: The person who submits the winning idea will be respectfully Tuckerized (inserted into the story) in multiple Daily Cabal posts according to any personal details that person is willing to divulge, whether those details are true or fanciful, clear or ambiguous.

THE DEADLINE: Put your ideas in the comments to this post by the end of the day Sunday, March 14th. To add a comment, click where it says “No comments” or “1 comment” etc. below.

Thanks to Luc for putting this announcement together!

4 Responses to “The Daily Cabal’s Third Anniversary: Come Up with a Celebration Idea and Be Immortalized”

  1. Valerie Says:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    perhaps you could explore the purpose(s) of ice, or any homonyms or near homonyms.

  2. Mechaieh Says:

    March 11th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    With trepidation and trembling… something Caballah-centric?

  3. Press Release: The Daily Cabal 3rd Anniversary Contest – Grasping for the Wind Says:

    March 12th, 2010 at 11:53 am

    […] 26, 2010 will mark the Daily Cabal’s third anniversary of posting brand new, very short, often wildly speculative fiction every single weekday, come Hell […]

  4. Daniel Braum Says:

    March 14th, 2010 at 4:19 am

    Playing off the Kaballah comment… we write stories having to do with the number three… or the secret meanings of the number 3, invented or real.