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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 4, 2008 11:07:28 GMT -5
Yeah, but remember: Central Poland (I'm guessing?) to the very western part of the US. That's a hell of a long distance to travel.
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Post by Quorthon on Jan 8, 2008 14:48:33 GMT -5
Glad to hear you got it, slayrrr - it took a looong time to arrive! The next issue is already out here in Poland. Hope Quorth will be getting his copy (or copies? - but usually they just send one, to be honest) sometime soon. I got it a couple weeks ago. Right before Christmas, I think. Pretty cool to see your name in print, even if it is in a unknown-in-the-west foreign publication. That makes 3 magazines my name has been in! Whoo! (The other two were both issues of Nintendo Power.) Sorry I forgot to mention it. Hey Slayrrr, what's your real-life name? I couldn't guess which story was yours. My story title is the only one easily read in both languages: "3:00" Hey, actually, Slayrrr, post the English version of your story up here! Also, Bart--could you PM me back my original English version that I sent you? I seem to have lost the bloody thing. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 9, 2008 11:03:50 GMT -5
I can't find it in my collection, but the jist was that a girl sat down to watch TV, turned on a B&W slasher movie where a killer killed someone in front of a door, then disappears from view, and while she's looking at the TV, waiting for it to follow the killer, it turns out she was actually watching the closed-circuit security camera feed over her front door, and the killer's standing behind her with a bloody knife. It's better than that lame version, but that's the general jist of it. It's not in my PMs or my e-mail, so I don't know what happened to the English version of it.
It's Don Anelli.
How about your story as well? It looks interesting.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 9, 2008 11:05:48 GMT -5
Of course, being a dumbass, I never checked page 1, where it's there in all it's 98-word glory, so ignore the top post, except for the name and request. So no wonder it wasn't in my e-mails.
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Post by Quorthon on Jan 10, 2008 16:07:17 GMT -5
"3:00"
In the darkness, and in the night.
‘Round three o’clock I feel a fright.
I hear it not, yet there it is,
My eyes remain closed through most of this.
The window open,
Outside, darkness floats.
Leaves don’t rustle,
Frogs don’t croak.
Sleeping, though I wish I was
Somewhat awake I have become.
An urge builds up inside my bones
‘Though ready to launch my death throes.
Grip my blanket, in sweaty palms
Grit my teeth to kill my calm.
Sleepy eyes open—
A short silhouette stands,
And it looms over
A paralyzed man.
There it is. In case you couldn't figure it out, it's about alien abduction, which is known to take place around three in the morning, and is accompanied by uncontrollable fear and paralysis.
Much like sleep paralysis...
I had to ask Bart to send it back to me since I lost my original version somehow. I'll have to make sure to keep a copy somewhere when I get home (I'm at work right now). I wrote it a short time after reading Communion.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 11, 2008 11:01:41 GMT -5
Nice, I like it. Hard to tell if the abduction is taking place or if it's taking place in the head, just the way they usually are. Not bad.
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Post by Quorthon on Jan 14, 2008 12:46:37 GMT -5
So Bart, were there a lot of submissions to this contest? What was there that we could win, if anything?
What made it a contest?
I've been waiting by the phone for calls from publishers wanting more work from me!! (not really)
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Post by Bartwald on Jan 14, 2008 16:56:02 GMT -5
Well, um, you have won the, ehh, the privilege of being published in Czachopismo? Right.
There were many submissions, believe it or not, and what was printed is about 30% of what we got. And, in fact, your story is published a page away from Poland's greatest modern horror writer, Lukasz Orbitowski.
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Post by Quorthon on Jan 17, 2008 9:45:03 GMT -5
Well, um, you have won the, ehh, the privilege of being published in Czachopismo? Right. There were many submissions, believe it or not, and what was printed is about 30% of what we got. And, in fact, your story is published a page away from Poland's greatest modern horror writer, Lukasz Orbitowski. That's cool. I was just curious since it was called a "contest" if the contest was to be printed and get the magazine, or if there was something else. Hey, guess what? I was also printed in the December Game Informer magazine (had Ghostbusters on the cover) for a quote from the message board. ResidentHazard is my username there. Someone from GameInformer's site and someone else from Metal-Archives.com both informed me that I was printed in there, and I didn't find out until after the issue left newsstands. So I missed out on that one. I've now appeared in four magazines: Nintendo Power (for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 100% accomplishment) Nintendo Power (for high score in StarFox64) Czachopismo (for an ultra-short story) Game Informer (online quote) Whoo, me! |
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