Renna’s Crossing Chapter 5: Gift From the Magi
Reading Time: 25 minutes“Magic may be held by any hand and bred by any soul. That was one of your grandmother’s most insistent lessons. It is all just a matter of discipline, and passion.”
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 4: Renna’s Going on a Trip + We Who Bloom in Early Spring
Reading Time: 17 minutesKyle ducked his head as a spinning flapjack narrowly missed him. He brandished a batter-covered spatula at Derek. “Cease fire at once! You know that’s against the Breakfast Geneva Code!”
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Renna’s Crossing Chapter 3: The Visitor, Twelve Years Prior
Reading Time: 11 minutesSomething from the direction of the forest made them turn about sharply, muscles tensed, a reflex with no apparent trigger. Mab put her thick, gnarled hand upon Job’s shoulder. “A bad visitor. Reeking of sulfur and forgotten hate.”
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Spring 2025 Original Fiction Submission Period Opens March 1st!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2025 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories of 1,200 words or fewer.
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Renna’s Crossing Chapter 2: Renna’s Room
Reading Time: 12 minutesSurely Job had a Reason for coming to see her, with lots of Relevant Information and perhaps even some Responsibilities. She didn’t know, so she was nervous. She wanted them to speak first and get on with it.
Renna’s Crossing Chapter 1: The Visitor, Twelve Years Later
Reading Time: 13 minutesJob, a youthful but accomplished witch, has come to the foster home of Inglenook to meet with 16-year old Renna Porter. Their purpose is a mystery even to the three dads of the foster home, but Job’s quiet tension indicates sudden change incoming.
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Fall 2024 Original Fiction Submissions Period Opens October 1!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2024 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer.
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MetaStellar is Accepting Flash Fiction Submissions for Spring 2024!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring 2024 submission cycle for original speculative fiction runs from March 1st and closes at midnight on March 31st. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories of 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form. Accepted authors will
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Metastellar Open for Fall 2023 Flash Fiction Submissions Oct 1st
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
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Flash Fiction Submissions Open March 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31.
Fall 2022 Call for Submissions Opens October 1st
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form.
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Flash fiction submissions start Mar. 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur official round of short story submissions begins March 1 and ends March 31.
Fall 2021 submission period closes with more than 400 submissions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s open submission period for fall 2021 has officially ended. This was our best cycle for submissions yet, receiving over 400 stories in 31 days.
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Renna’s Crossing
Reading Time: 25 minutesThe first part of a contemporary fantasy story for young and new adults. Sixteen-year-old Renna Porter and Job, her mysterious tutor in witchcraft, race to a magical sanctuary deep in the Adirondacks, pursued by a demon hunting down the last of Renna’s bloodline.
Spring submission winners announced
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
Roll for Narrative: An Interview with Spencer Campbell, Making Sci-Fi Playable on Your Table
Reading Time: 11 minutesI sat down digitally with Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs to talk about his new tabletop roleplaying game FRAME, currently gearing up for a Kickstarter campaign later this month. I wanted to learn where the game’s concept came from and how Spencer drew upon the sci fi genre to build a speculative fiction narrative within the medium of a roleplaying game.
Flash fiction submissions due April 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
‘The Girl Who Owned A City’ Asks What Would Happen if Only Children Survived a Pandemic
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerhaps our contemporary crises brought it back into my mind, as the events of the book take place in the wake of a devastating pandemic that has swept across America, sparing only those under the age of twelve.
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Flash fiction submissions due Nov. 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlash fiction submission deadline is November 1.