365 tomorrows

Most of you are familiar with 365tomorrows from the SciFi stories published to the front page every day, but there’s a community lurking just beneath the surface too. Check out The Forums, register and jump in to talk about the stories and chat with the authors.

Link up in the Science Fiction forum and discus other people’s sci-fi (books, movies, TV, comics, etc) and share news that reminds us how close to tomorrow we actually are. Visit The Pod where we all go to relax. If a story from the front page inspires a continuation or spin off, post it to The Day After Tomorrow. Finally, for stories submitted to 365 that aren’t accepted, a recent addition is Building a Better Tomorrow where you can go to find revision help for rejected tomorrows.

Follow 365tomorrows on twitter to get links to the day’s stories as they are published. twitter.com/365tomorrows

“Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases… No, it won’t do. We need some other kind of madness and violence. But what? What? Where can one find it?”
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

January 1st brings us the start of a New Year. May we have many an insane, excruciating thing to be excited about in the coming year, and perhaps an equal measure of marvel and joy.

Take good care of you and yours, and all the very best for the coming Tomorrows and beyond.
:The Staff and Writers of 365tomorrows

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

Whether we call it Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day, I can’t help but reflect on this day that we get to spend our time looking to possible tomorrows because of the sacrifices made by those who gave up their own.

Thank you.

Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty is for sale today on Amazon.

You may remember Mur Lafferty as an author we featured in May of last year on 365, and the cover art for the Podiobook versions of Playing for Keeps was done by our own JR.Blackwell and one of our founding members, Jared Axelrod, as well as JC Hutchins and Natalie Metzger.

Mur’s got great story telling ability, and you can show some support and get a great book at the same time by dropping by Amazon and picking up a copy.

Happy August First!

Today marks the start of the fourth year of 365. We hit a lot of milestones in the last twelve months, including our 1000th story, which was reported on boingboing.

Whether you’re a new reader or you’ve been here since the beginning, we’re glad to have you around. Thanks for a great three years, and we hope you enjoy the fourth!

We’d like to wish all of our American readers a Happy Independence Day, from all of us at 365tomorrows. Patricia Stewart, one of our American writers has the front page today for the Fourth of July holiday in the United States.

We’d like to wish all of our Canadian readers a Happy Canada Day, from all of us at 365tomorrows. Duncan Shields, one of our Canadian writers has the front page today, and in a few days time, Patricia Stewart, one of our American writers will have the front page for the Fourth of July holiday in the United States.

Let’s say that you’re surfing the majestic tubes that make up our internet when you stumble onto a nifty flash fiction website.  What a fascinating idea, you think!  New short stories, every morning!

Now, lets say that after a bit of poking around, you decide to start at the very first story and move on from there.  A fine task for an afternoon, right?

Wrong.

A fine task for a weekend, right?

Wrong.

You’d better put on a few pots of coffee, because if you spend five minutes reading each story posted here, you’ll have a fine task for three and a half days.

Today, 365tomorrows turns 1000 stories old.

Would you like to bake us a cake?  If so, you’ll need about two pounds of birthday candles!  Would you like to print the stories into one book and keep it on your nightstand?  It’ll be almost as thick as three copies of Moby Dick!  Would you like to mail me an American quarter for every story written?  You’d better have a lot of postage handy, because that package would weigh thirteen pounds!

That’s about as much math as my liberal arts major brain can handle in one night.

Whether you’ve been a fan since the beginning or you’ve only recently found the site, we’re grateful for your support and we hope you stick around for many years to come.

-Kathy

As a follow up to the contest we ran a few months ago on deviantART looking for 7 top notch Flash Fiction pieces to feature here on 365tomorrows, this is our second ‘week of deviantART’ where we feature the Runners Up. We had a fantastic response from the writing community there, with 40 entries coming through in the short time they had to prepare. After reviewing all the entries, 7 were selected as winners, and each story was published here in March, and will also be featured in upcoming episodes of the podcast, Voices of Tomorrow.

For the next 7 days we’re featuring the 7 stories that nearly won, and as such are each too good not to share with you here.

We hope you’ll enjoy reading all of them as much as we have.