Untied Shoelaces of the Mind

By MumblingSage · Dec 15, 2009 · ·
  1. My flash piece "Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones" has been accepted at the new flash webzine Untied Shoelaces of the Mind.

    This epic tale of dragon slayers, dragons, dragon snot (it bursts into flames on contact with the air), and Fate mixes juvenile humor with a cutting examination of the assumptions many fantasy epics are based on. What's up with that title, Chosen One, anyways?

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    Amber Stults selected Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones as her Story of the Month for March 2010.

Comments

  1. LordKyleOfEarth
  2. marina
    Nice. Congratulations.
  3. becca
    Congratz!

    I saw the place and am planning to submit to them sometime in 2010. How were they to deal with?
  4. TrulyJuxta
    I'm Editor in Chief of Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, and I can tell you we're bastards. We have some of the best technology in the business, including the fact that our entire story collection is searchable. Depending on what editor your story encounters, you'll either receive a form letter rejection, or a personal rejection. I always do personal rejections, and I'm a real asshole about it, sorry. I'll point out the negative reasons for why we rejected, but I rarely will point out positive aspects of a story, unless I truly enjoyed it but we still can't use it. We reject 97.5% or so, and while I do send very harsh rejections, I've had a few people thank me for being truthful, and I'd rather be known as truthful than nice. I mean, sure, I'd like to be known as nice, but I just don't have a lot of spare time to sugarcoat things.
  5. MumblingSage
    Wow! Looks like a lot of comments built up here when I wasn't looking. I should check if there's an option to be notified of comments so this won't happen again.

    Becca--while everything TrulyJuxta says is true (I've had a few stories rejected from USM before and since), they're not 'meanies'. I mean, they might only give the negative rather than the positive, but the negative is specific, not 'this story sucks and you should crawl in a hole and die'. I mean, I've been nastier than they are back when I wrote reviews at Critters, and but unlike them, I never gave anybody money and publication when I liked their story enough. Reply times were always quick, rejection or acceptance, and overall, I think they're one of the easier markets to deal with (no confusions, long waits, or anything).
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