This past spring, the folks behind Machine Of Death – an anthology of stories centered around the idea in this comic – put out a call for submissions for the next book. They ended up with a stack of about 2,000 stories that they had to pare down to about 30. This week they started sending out rejection and acceptance emails. People whose stories were rejected have been posting theirs online and, if these are the ones that have been passed over, it’s pretty clear the book itself is going to be a fantastic read.
I’ve been watching Twitter to see what sort of stories have been posted. Here are some of the ones I found:
- Daisy by @BridgidCassin
- Explosive Decompression by @WombatofDoom42
- Whispers by @MalloryDuVal
- [null] by @philoddy
- Adventure by @HelloTheFuture
- Meteor by @ThatSpencerGuy
And here are the three I submitted: Impact, Meteor and Heart Attack.
If you find more or posted your own, please add them in the comments section.
Ice-Cream Headache: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13QNGnB2V42-85MGqRJYoqMTMkGondeqqs8KtRRELWU0/edit
And Poison Apple: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yotMyQQyoADGkfSPsvR3eOh-iQhG32hEuZHxesA8DCg/edit
Possibly a third one, too…as soon as I get that third e-mail…
@angelusloci
My story, The Cat or the Piano: http://zagrobelny.blogspot.com/2011/11/machine-of-death-cat-or-piano.html
@zagrobelny
Yep, there’s that third e-mail.
Rusty Ice-Pick: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12IFsg53weQQQ_j4iwNLqLToyNgDDF-iG0E7fTSm_rMM/edit
@angelusloci
@buytoiletpaper created a Tumbler: http://rejectedmod2.tumblr.com/
MONTAGFIRE’S SWORD by MARK LEE PEARSON http://bit.ly/tH0YWS
Here’s my historical origin story, ASSASSINATION by Rob Jennings.
http://bit.ly/o1ljrU
It’s been really interesting seeing other people’s stories out there. Here’s the two I submitted.
CRANE by Morgan Lawrence Hale
http://scribblersquest.wordpress.com/my-writing/crane/
and
AFTER SPEAKING HIS NEXT 100 WORDS by Morgan Lawrence Hale
http://scribblersquest.wordpress.com/my-writing/afterspeakinghisnext100words/
Here are mine:
Broken Heart:
http://proportionalexcitability.tumblr.com/post/12362527435/broken-heart-machine-of-death-story
Catastrophic Failure Of Biological Systems
http://proportionalexcitability.tumblr.com/post/12362584971/catastrophic-failure-of-biological-systems-machine-of
Betrayal
http://proportionalexcitability.tumblr.com/post/12362634083/betrayal-machine-of-death-story
@Maggie628
Mine can be found here: http://jekawrites.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/prevenge/
It’s called PREVENGE and I wrote it with my brother, Michael J. Marcotte. It’s awesome that we’ve sort of got a culture and community built around these cool stories.
This is mine, TRANSLATION SERVER ERROR: http://jamiedrew.co.uk/post/12375598887
My MOD tale, “Do the Rhyme. Do the Time.” is listed here.
http://readinrittinrhetoric.blogspot.com/2011/11/machine-of-death-ii-do-rhyme-do-time.html
Great job Steve D! I read your story “Meteor” right away, as my short story is called “Asteroid”
I had seen your story’s title in the word cloud, and I was worried that we had had the same idea. Needless to say, we are miles apart! Your story is quite good 🙂
Anyone who would like an alternative view of what can be done with the idea can check out my story at:
http://wp.me/p1YjUZ-3
Please post comments!!!
–Brian
Had a lot of fun writing it, so maybe someone will like reading it.
Knowing Changes Nothing in the Heart, by Jasmine Wahlberg (@mirnenmacleod):
http://tinyurl.com/3wddymb
I’m quite pleased to be reading so many quality stories that might have otherwise fallen by the wayside. Thanks to everyone for sharing.
MEDICAL MANSLAUGHTER: http://bs.parry.org/a/medical-manslaughter
FORGOTTEN: http://bs.parry.org/a/forgotten
Seeing all these shared stores really makes me want to see the winners. Oh, well.
BLOWN UP http://joannad.wordpress.com/writings/creativ-writings/blown-up/
It’s my attempt at a cheerful steampunk MOD story.
“PICNIC, LIGHTNING” is an obituary. It can be found at http://chanelstory.blogspot.com/2011/11/machine-of-death-reject-2.html.
“BROKEN HEART” is a pretty short story about a family. It can be found at http://chanelstory.blogspot.com/2011/11/machine-of-death-reject-1.html.
I’ve enjoyed reading several other stories posted here, and look forward to reading more. Thank you!
Chanel Earl
“Alien Abduction” by Nigel G. Mitchell http://nigelgmitchell.blogspot.com/2013/01/free-short-story-alien-abduction-short.html