October '09 Issue

The PDF version is now available for download on our website. We're having technical difficulties with the print edition, but will keep you posted on when it will become available for purchase.

As we are a FREE online 'zine, your donations are most welcome and appreciated if you download the 'zine.

Thank you.

Tworror Contest - Voting

I've decided that this should be put up for a vote on here rather than me choosing the two finalists for Wednesday night's tworror episode. I have narrowed the field a bit, however. I will at random do this several times before the 20th, until we have 10 finalists. Then, you get to choose the winners. The two entries with the most votes in the final round, of which there will be a blog post showing the 10 finalists, win the prizes.

Voting for Round 1 will commence now, until the next blog post. Choose your favorite tworror out of the following tweets, responding by typing their name or the entire tworror entry in the comments section. You can only vote once, therefore anonymous votes will not count. Sorry, but I have to keep track somehow. And no, you cannot vote for yourself.

Go!

WookieStyle her placid eyes, porcelain skin... such beautiful hair.... skin cold to the touch.... preserved forever, my love... never to leave


stina8753 Listen for me, I will wail until your eardrums shatter, and I will return bloody garments as you slip away. I am Banshee.


ericjkrause Killing in darkness came too easy. The dead clown liked everyone to watch his mayhem. Spilled blood became his morning coffee.


LHPlib The banging stopped. It had stopped hours ago. I sipped tea in the dark. I checked my watch. Suffocation was never pretty.


jimsissy The bodies were heavy and they smelled bad. My shovel dug into more red clay. Hard work, but good pay- until the first body moved.


danfaust Warm blood stained her lips and chin. A feral howl pierced the night--her own--as she fell upon her prey


NickCobb A grim look lit her eyes; her fate was death. Hopefully it would come quick, silencing the painful screams from her children.


danfaust The thing turned the boy's head and looked at me through sunken, red-rimmed eyes. It smiled. I fired.


NickCobb A sardonic smile stretched the width of his face as he sheathed the blade in his victim's abdomen, exposing steamy entrails.


ajackwriting Do you know what your shadow does at night? It tells the other shadows where you sleep


Werecat1 I slept, dead to the world, until a firm, slimy grip yanked my ankle from the covers. Screaming & twisting I was dragged into hell.


omewan the killer behind this face / with cravings I must embrace / the forces of life and death / my life becomes your last breath


violetingram I stood over him, staring at the gaping hole in his chest. The beast that fed on my father stood in the corner watching me.


ajackwriting For every thing in the light, there is also a shadow. The shadow waits for you to turn out the light, so it can watch you sleep


Werecat1 His fingers gently plied the paperclip from curves to straight, twirling it around pale knuckles before plunging it into my eye


violetingram The guards found the mutilated corpse and the creature feeding on it after the haunted house was closed for the night.


Werecat1 The new moon casts no light as I walk past the uncovered window. Movement halts me & I turn, seeing the face before glass shatters








And these just made me laugh out loud! (Not up for voting, but felt they needed a mention)


ElwoodJBlues The tweet is coming from inside the house!


omewan From terror he wakes, still shaking. How can the mind create such horror? He looks around & screams..he's really in Mom's basement.


danfaust He was never attracted to girls with brains. Until he died.


omewan The crowd's energy filled the air. She whispered, "you'll never be the same." The lights dimmed.. "It's a small world after all!!"


Werecat1 Soft fur brushed my arm right before the fangs struck. Screaming, I flung my attacker, seeing spider legs slide down the wall.

Tworror What?

Okay folks, it's the haunting season and we're having a contest! On Twitter, of all places, because we want to see what you can do in 140 characters or less. Don't panic, we know you've got it in you.

The Rules:

1) Tweet a horror story in 140 characters or less.

2) Add the hashtag #Tworror (so we can look it up)

That's it!

Follow @ForeverNocturne too! We finally gave in and got an account on Twitter.

First prize: $20 gift card

Second prize: $10 gift card

First through tenth place will be published in this next issue of Forever Nocturne.

Disclaimer: by entering the contest through a tweet on Twitter, you give us permission to publish your tworror for this one issue, due out October 2009.

Let the contest begin!

Deadline for tworror is Oct 20th.

Changes

We have some changes coming soon, but we are still accepting submissions for the October 2009 issue of Forever Nocturne e-zine. Give me your darkest, your scariest, make me throw the MS across the room... wait, I read on my laptop. Well, whatever, scare the hell out of me. I grew up watching horror flicks, people. I fell in love with "Dracula" at the age of eight. This will make your job difficult, so let's see what you can do.

You can submit your work here.

Also, be prepared for our first Twitter contest. I'll want to see twitter horror from you guys. Shall we call it "tworror"?


I'll be back with updates soon.

Thanks,

Jinxie_G

Forever Nocturne Volume I Issue III

The latest and third edition of Forever Nocturne is now available in a PDF download, or you can just look at it online if you so choose. We are working on getting the print edition available to you soon, so stay tuned.

Some of the authors you'll find in this issue:

Siobhan MacIntyre
Gary Corby
Carrie Clevenger
Rachel Blackbirdsong
NL Gervasio
Samuel Dickens

And many more!

That is all.

Jinx

Agent Blogs

We have added a Helpful Agent Blog list to the right of this blog to help you in your quest for perfect queries, how to find the "right" agent, and just for plain entertainment. Some of them are damn funny, so enjoy.

Now, play nice with the agents or they won't be helpful. Oh, and Miss Snark retired, so hers is all archived, but there's a ton of good information in there! You should read it. Yes, that is an assignment.

We will be adding more to the list soon.


Jinx

Welcome!

Forever Nocturne is an online magazine, owned and operated by the people you will find within the pages of our first edition. Hey, we had to start with something. We are from various parts of the western United States and have come together to bring you tales of horror, romance, comedy, tragedy, and so on. Most commonly, you will notice a new genre, which we like to call "Modern Gothic Horror Romance." This is simply because some of us like to work in the macabre, as well as the romance areas. Our stories revolve around vampires, werewolves, the supernatural, and all those things that go bump in the night. But what is a story without a good romance tale in the mix? Essentially, blood and gore if it's in the horror genre, but don't worry, some of that will grace the pages of the magazine, too. Some of us loved 30 Days of Night. Our submission guidelines are available on our website.

This blog has been created in order to bring you, the writer, helpful tips on writing (since we're all a bunch of Grammar Ninjas), how to search for an agent, what NOT to say in a query letter or to point you in the direction of helpful agent blogs, and so on.

Stay tuned for more.

And thanks for stopping by.