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being naked in the sun with a good book and a glass of lemonade.<br /><br />urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aliensoul77:755Surreal Horror Anthology2009-06-15T10:13:52Z2009-06-15T10:13:52Z <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - New Surreal Anthology</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am putting together an anthology of horror called "The Ultimate Surreal". I have been published in Rare, an anthology of horror, on gothic.net as well as many other anthologies.<span style=""> </span>I am looking for surreal horror fiction grounded in reality which ever so softly slips into the surreal.<span style=""> </span>I don’t want splatterpunk, over the top grossout horror.<span style=""> </span>I am looking for more psychologically surreal stuff, it can have alien fetuses in it as long as those alien fetuses are integral to the plot. Think of David Cronenberg meets David Lynch with a dab of Tim Burton.<span style=""> </span>I am looking for artists, fiction writers and perhaps even poetry if it is truly surreal.<span style=""> </span>I like ambiguity, where the reader can be left to determine if the narrator was insane or not and I am a big fan of everyday horror, the way a simple day at the office can turn freaky scary.<span style=""> </span>Psychological horror is preferred over gory horror, cussing and sex is okay as long as it has a point.<span style=""> </span>500-1500 words.<span style=""> </span>Deadline is:<span style=""> </span>Oct 31<sup>st</sup>, 2009 but if you want to send something over to let me know you are interested early like a rough draft I would be happy to look it over and let you know if it is what I am looking for.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can submit it to me at <a href="mailto:dangrn77@hotma%20%20il.com">dangrn77@hotmail.com</a>: put Surrealism Anthology in the subject posting. It can have a horror context or sci-fi or even dark fantasy as long as it operates on the same level of the surrealist's manifesto which is:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a target="_blank" href="http://e/">http://e</a>n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_Manifesto</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"</span><i>two distant realities</i> brought together to create a new, uncanny union<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Consider the weird vibe of the film “Eraserhead” which gives us ordinary circumstances, a seemingly familiar world then slowly begins to tear away every thread of sanity we have and exposes the grim horror within. Show me your inner surrealist!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Surreally Yours,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Daniel w. Gonzales</p>