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Where to Submit Weird: 14 Places Looking for Strange Stories
Daydream Misfit is always on the lookout for journals, literary magazines and contests where authors can submit weird fiction, speculative fiction, flash fiction, and unconventional stories. "Where to Submit Weird" is a regular feature of our blog intended to connect authors with writing markets and encourage short story submission. The information for the following list of contacts is subject to change and should be confirmed through the publications' websites.
Oct 286 min read


Love After Death Movie Review
Love After Death is a black-and-white movie from 1968, filmed in New York and dubbed in English over Spanish. The film opens on a wake (of a body, not of a storm, where is my mind exactly?), but the eyes of the "corpse" are blinking. The paralyzed man looks up at the attendees peering into his coffin, a woman, Sofia, and his best friend, and a doctor he knows by name, and a couple of thugs, and pleads that he is only having a cataleptic fit and to please not bury him. "Who
Oct 2012 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 10/19/2026
First off, we got slammed here in Pensacola by Hurricane Isaias. We didn't personally experience much damage, but many people did. Trees down everywhere, and it's not hard to find huge oaks which crushed houses. And of course, many, many downed power-lines.
Oct 193 min read


Bento Abyss
It's a bento box which might serve tentacles, burning coals, tiny Barbies, little green peas in cream, and one pierced human lip, each entree confined in a strict, impervious rectangle.
Oct 51 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 9/28/2026
scatterplat In personal news, I got the lease taken care of, I think anyway, so I don’t have to worry about that for a year. Planning a trip to New Orleans next month with Raven to see some oddities, so that should be fun, as well as various local events. I’m seriously mulling over the idea of moving huge elements of the Daydream Misfit project into a press and producing small batches of hard product. The website would then be considered the sandbox for excavating tangible
Sep 283 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 9/15/2026
Back for one of my periodic check-ins. It's fun to look back at the previous update and see what I thought I would be getting accomplished and what did and didn't get done.
Sep 152 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 08/21/2026
For these regular updates, I'm going with a past/present/future thing. I'll talk about what I'm working on currently, what's on my Never-Ending List of Amazing Ideas (tm), and then talk about an old project with the benefit of hindsight.
Aug 212 min read

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