Submission II: Literary Journals and Magazines

  • 2015/12/31 23:36

SUBMIT-AWe are again feeling very submissive. After receiving waves of rejection and deafening silence from the dozens of publishers and literary agents we submitted the full text of HETEROPOCALYPSE: RITUAL to, we decided to make sacrifices.

We broke our text. Nothing is sacred. The carefully interwoven stories of the Heteropocalypse have been disentangled, unfurled and forced unnaturally into separate short stories. The disentangling took one thing and turned it into nine.

SUBMIT-BThose nine things are now being submitted to every literary journal we can find, one at a time. This multiplies our work exponentially, but also the possibilities of a match. When The New Yorker rejects “The Moon is a Thin Balloon” we can send them “A Cup of Sugar” next. If McSweeny’s doesn’t get the off-beat humor of “his cardigan is suddenly uncomfortably warm” they might go for the bizarre treatment of pop culture in “Miley has Invited Billie Rae to Dinner”. We’re sending “A Pegasus Conceived” or “The Last Ritual” to publishers of sci-fi and fantasy, and attempting other genre-focusing choices.

Anyone who wishes to assist with this sisyphean task will be rewarded with sneak previews of the stories. Please contact heteropocalypse@riseup.net if you are interested. SUBMIT-C

VIROLOGY

  • 2015/12/04 06:36

virologyThe collective / cult that is Zelig Rana has been working diligently to promote and create an infectious following for this work. We figure that the best way to avoid having all of our submissions get rejected again is to “go viral” so that bands of wild-eyed hooligans begin knocking over shelves and old ladies in their earnest demand for our product.

That is how these things work, correct?

To that end, we built ourselves a facevirus account, and each member of our secret society invited all of their freakiest friends to observe our doings there. To be honest we have also spent some amount of time sending friend requests to the most interesting looking suggested friends.
virology-2The facevirus is a strange and beautiful place, full of gorgeous people who, like any good libertines, push up against the prudish community standards of the world’s largest social virus website. People say there is a “weird facebook” and we are glad to participate.

Thus far our contributions have consisted primarily of aleatoric selections from the text itself and detourned Miley Cyrus selfies that, if you look closely enough destroy the aforementioned community standards.

Please follow this, or that space for updates about new viral activities. We are considering releasing the entire book on snapchat, or getting a tinder account, but are more likely to go exploring for a “weird OkCupid”. Keep an eye out for images of Miley with sex organs all over her face.

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