Dark Moments
Theme: July 2025 - Ghost Ships
This July, we invite you to board the haunted decks of ghost ships lost to time and storm. Picture spectral vessels adrift in swirling ocean mist, crewed by the damned and desperate to lure the living into their eternal voyage.
Give us your best 100-word tales—microfiction dripping with maritime dread, haunted crews, cursed treasures, or phantom calls echoing across midnight waves. Whether your ship is a tattered wreck or a vanished luxury liner, let your imagination drift into the unknown.
All genres welcome, as long as your story captures the chilling spirit of the theme.
This theme will be open for submissions from 1st JULY 2025 and will close midnight 31st JULY 2025 (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 AUGUST 2025.
- Word count : EXACTLY 100 words, excluding title and pen name
- Author eligibility : Open to all.
- Reprints : Not allowed
- Simultaneous Submissions : Not allowed
- 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.Open Calls
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