Dark Moments

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Theme: December 2025 - Postcards From

Wish you were here…

We’re collecting messages from the edge—snapshots of terror, longing, and the uncanny. Postcards sent from places that shouldn’t exist.

From dreamscapes gone rotten. From the afterlife, the apocalypse, or the wrong side of reality. What does a haunted holiday look like?

What do the lost have to say when they finally find a postbox? Maybe it’s a love note written in ash, or a final message scrawled in someone else’s blood.

Wherever your story’s stamped from—paradise, purgatory, or parts unknown—we want to read what’s been sent.

This theme will be open for submissions from 1st DECEMBER 2025 and will close midnight 31st DECEMBER 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 JANUARY 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.