#frictionlit #writing #contest #writingcontest #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi Below is a story that I submitted to the “friction” literary magazine earlier this year. It's a beautiful magazine that is put out three times per year. Personally, I'm subscribed to it myself, otherwise I wouldn't have tried submitting a piece for their consideration. They hold a Spring and a Winter contest... The Winter deadline is still over a month away. We'll see how prolific I am in the next four weeks, maybe I'll have something that I think might fit the readership.

Getting back to this story though. This is one of the longer short stories that I've written, coming in around ~6k words. It's still considerably much smaller than a novella, but I've written it with the possibly expanding the story and the chapters more with additional prose in mind. So it is broken into ten “chapters” and an Epilogue.

The Pitch?

It's sort of like if Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had a baby with Total Recall. It's not quite as Philip K. Dick as I would like it to be, but I didn't think f®iction would want to publish hard pyschadelic sci-fi... Maybe I was wrong.

The story was rejected, but honestly, I would rather just post it as-is for people to read while I work on other stories. I would love to know your comments. What do you like? What do you hate? Any feedback is welcome.