Identity Theft & the Octopus Kid
Issue 6: Identity Theft & the Octopus Kid
Consider the following:
-identity, body issues, identity politics, transgenderism, gender
-crime, especially in the digital age
-fraud, money, theft, appropriation, property (or the lack of)
-mutation, transformation, genetic experiments, aliens
-deep sea biology
Huh? How does that translate into fiction, right? Well here's some of the possible interpretations of this theme:
-anarchist cacaelia bankrobbers running round on unicycles
-deep sea Westerns with cyborg shamans and damp side-kicks made of money
-sucker cyber sex for sale to the highest bidder on eBay
-the man who stole a mermaid's identity to emmigrate to Atlantis
-a noir thriller set in a futuristic Japanese squid market, with wads of cash and oodles of noodles!
Does that inspire anything? Yes? No? Then get writing!
Submissions are made to editor@polluto.com
Issue 6: Identity Theft & the Octopus Kid
Consider the following:
-identity, body issues, identity politics, transgenderism, gender
-crime, especially in the digital age
-fraud, money, theft, appropriation, property (or the lack of)
-mutation, transformation, genetic experiments, aliens
-deep sea biology
Huh? How does that translate into fiction, right? Well here's some of the possible interpretations of this theme:
-anarchist cacaelia bankrobbers running round on unicycles
-deep sea Westerns with cyborg shamans and damp side-kicks made of money
-sucker cyber sex for sale to the highest bidder on eBay
-the man who stole a mermaid's identity to emmigrate to Atlantis
-a noir thriller set in a futuristic Japanese squid market, with wads of cash and oodles of noodles!
Does that inspire anything? Yes? No? Then get writing!
Submissions are made to editor@polluto.com
Submissions Guidelines
Issue 5 is now closed to submissions!
We're looking for angry voices, new voices, voices that want to toy with the reader and teach them something new and exciting. Take us dark places, dirty places, and show us things to make us giggle, gasp or gag.
All submissions must have a countercultural element. By this we mean an enagagement with, challenging of or subverting of popular cultures and ideologies. Many submissions lack this important point. Remember: we are 'The Anti-Pop Culture Journal'. If you want to know what that means, pick up a copy and see how our mission statement and our themes come together. Read the editorial introduction. Read the stories. Read the poems. Look at the art. Read the columns. Then ask yourself, 'Can I really imagine myself alongside these works?' If you can, then submissions should be sent, as always, to editor@polluto.com.
Payment will be 0.5p/word (max. £25) with a comp copy thrown in. Reduced rates may apply to online content and reprints. Payment to non-UK residents is by PayPal ONLY. We cannot send foreign bankers drafts or send foreign currency.
And as C. S. Lewis once muttered under his breath during a reading by Tolkien, 'Not another fucking elf.'
Issue 5 is now closed to submissions!
We're looking for angry voices, new voices, voices that want to toy with the reader and teach them something new and exciting. Take us dark places, dirty places, and show us things to make us giggle, gasp or gag.
All submissions must have a countercultural element. By this we mean an enagagement with, challenging of or subverting of popular cultures and ideologies. Many submissions lack this important point. Remember: we are 'The Anti-Pop Culture Journal'. If you want to know what that means, pick up a copy and see how our mission statement and our themes come together. Read the editorial introduction. Read the stories. Read the poems. Look at the art. Read the columns. Then ask yourself, 'Can I really imagine myself alongside these works?' If you can, then submissions should be sent, as always, to editor@polluto.com.
Payment will be 0.5p/word (max. £25) with a comp copy thrown in. Reduced rates may apply to online content and reprints. Payment to non-UK residents is by PayPal ONLY. We cannot send foreign bankers drafts or send foreign currency.
And as C. S. Lewis once muttered under his breath during a reading by Tolkien, 'Not another fucking elf.'