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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


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


Daydream Misfit, Influence Peddler
What better way to celebrate the many influences that have inspired Daydream Misfit's creators than to link to them commercially in order to try to generate a few pennies with which to help keep the lights on? Join us in a purely capitalistic experiment in which we serve up the search engines with a myriad of famous names, add affiliate links to them, then sit back and wait for you to click through and buy things on the world's biggest e-commerce platform. What would Kafka
Oct 21 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

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