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This is the LAST WEEK to submit your manuscript for our open #CallForSubmissions
We’re looking for action, crime, humour, dark fantasy, *takes a breath* horror and more!
🕰️ Submit before November 1st!
coldopenstories.com/write/
#shortfiction #writing
🌑 I see the bad moon rising 🎶
Grab your headphones and tune into this month’s *creepiest* Original Worlds audiobook - ‘What She Did to the Moon’ by Morgan Wodring. It’s the penultimate release of our ‘Thrills & Chills’ series for October 🎧 🎃
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⚡️🌪️ Cloudy with a chance of warp storms.
Read Carrion Void for FREE in Sanctum Librarium - our #Warhammer40k ebook anthology, alongside 10 other grimdark tales.
🔗 Download at 40k.coldopenstories.com/anth… or link in bio.
The internet’s favourite Warhammer 40,000 writing competition is BACK ✅ For the FINAL Fast Fiction contest of 2026, we’re exploring Storge, Philia, Eros, and Agape 🖤 💔
Learn more at 40k.coldopenstories.com/fict… (or link in bio).
⚡️🌪️ Cloudy with a chance of warp storms.
Read Carrion Void for FREE in Sanctum Librarium - our #Warhammer40k ebook anthology, alongside 10 other grimdark tales.
🔗 Download at 40k.coldopenstories.com/anth… or link in bio.
As part of our month of chills and thrills, we have a new audiobook out for you!
🐳 Check out ‘Future In A Whale Fall’ on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
YouTube
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Apple
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Spotify
open.spotify.com/episode/584…
🤤 You wouldn’t like me when I’m… hungry…?
Read BATTER UP in Sanctum Librarium (our #Warhammer40k anthology) along with 10 other grimdark tales).
Download the #FreeEbook via link in bio 📥
🏚️ For sale: one haunted mansion. Comes with the echoes of family trauma included. Reduced for a quick sale.
Read ‘The Magistrate’ by Matthew Tucker: linktr.ee/coldopenstories (or click link in bio for more great stories).
#ShortFiction #ShortStories #Horror
👻 To celebrate our favourite month of the year, we’re dropping new audiobooks of #Warhammer40k fast fiction AND full-length #shortfiction Originals every FRIDAY in October.
Check out the first release here:
youtu.be/Tqio1LBN6g8?si=UK2E…
🩻 😨 Desire. Repulsion. Annihilation.
Start the spooky season with one of our fantastic erotic horror tales: The Mavka’s Lament—link in bio.
#ShortFiction #ShortStories #Horror
👀🔥 “If looks could kill, I would gladly die for the simple delight of experiencing yours resting upon mine.”
Read ASPECTUS NECARE POSSUNT in our #Warhammer40k anthology Sanctum Librarium (along with 10 other grimdark tales).
Download the #FreeEbook via link in bio 📥
🍻👣 Norman wanted a memorable event. He would get it, and much more. Read Local Trouble now—link in bio.
#ShortFiction #ShortStories
We’re actively seeking short stories in our new #CallForSubmissions ✨ That means entries from every genre imaginable: action, crime, humour, dark fantasy, [*takes a breath*] horror and more!
🕰️ Submit your manuscript before November 1st! Link in bio…
#shortfiction #writing
Heed the call (for submissions!) ✍️✨
We’re looking for original short story manuscripts (5k–5.5k words) in sci-fi, dark fantasy, cosmic horror, crime noir, and beyond.
Deadline: Nov 1 at 11:59 PM PT
Ready to submit? Link in bio!
#WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions
Enter the vault of forbidden tales. 📚⚔️
The Sanctum Librarium is a curated anthology of fan-written short stories set in the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40k universe.
Volume XVI is now available as a free e-book download (link in bio) 📥
#Warhammer40k #FreeEbook #Grimdark
🏔️💀 A perilous peak. No oxygen. And something waiting in the storm. Read The Last Warm Bodies now—link in bio.
#HorrorFiction #ShortFiction #ShortStories