Dark Moments

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Theme: January 2026 - Train, Planes, & Automobiles

Explore the terror lurking in motion: locomotives roaring toward impossible destinations, flights haunted by unseen passengers, or cars that hunger for those who dare enter. 

Show us travel gone wrong, engines whispering secrets, terminals that breathe, and journeys that refuse to end. Bring us stories filled with dread, isolation, and mechanical menace. 

Send your most chilling visions of transit transformed into nightmare realms where every departure risks a final, irreversible descent into fear. 

This theme will be open for submissions from 1st JANUARY 2026 and will close midnight 31st JANUARY 2026 (last place on Earth). Submissions received outside of this timeframe will not be read.

You must include the theme in your email subject (as shown above). Reading will start once the submission period has closed.

The BEST 12 drabbles will be chosen for publication in FEBRUARY 2026.

• Word count : EXACTLY 100 words, excluding title and pen name
• Author eligibility : Open to all.
• Reprints : Not allowed
• Simultaneous Submissions : Not allowed. Please do not submit your story to other publishers while it's under our consideration. As a small team, we focus our efforts on pieces with a genuine chance of publication, and we appreciate your respect for our time and process.
• Multiple Submissions : One per pen name, per theme. If you send more than one, we will reject them all, unread.
• Publication : Online in Dark Moments.  May be included in a single anthology in print and digital formats at a later date (but within one year of initial publication)
• Author compensation : 0.04 USD per word via PayPal

Submit to : darkmoments@BlackHarePress.com

Don't forget to check out our Submission Guidelines.