MicroHorror

It’s contest time yet again! This year’s theme is THE PAST, so dust off your reference books and show me something scary.

Here are the official rules:
- Contest begins 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4), October 1, 2009. It’s already started! Hurry!
- Contest ends 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4), October 31, 2009.
- Submit all entries via e-mail to microhorror@gmail.com. To make my job a little bit easier, please specify in the title or body of the e-mail that the story is to be considered a contest entry.
- To be eligible, all submitted stories must have a word count of 666 or less, as determined by the word-count function in Microsoft Works. Titles and bylines do not count towards the limit.
- Only new stories are eligible for the contest. Reprints will not be accepted.
- Stories will be judged on their subjective merits, taking into account originality, scariness and adherence to the theme.
- Three (3) winners will receive real, tangible prizes! The precise nature of the prizes will be announced prior to the contest deadline.
- There is no limit to the number of entries that an author may submit prior to the deadline, but no author will receive more than one prize or prize package.
- MicroHorror.com submission policies remain the same. All submitted stories, winning or not, that are acceptable for publication will be published. Any contest submission that is judged ineligible (for example, a story that has nothing to do with the past) may still be published on MicroHorror.com, provided that it meets the usual submission policies.
- The winners will be announced on November 1, 2009, or shortly thereafter.
- I, Nathan Rosen, founder and editor of MicroHorror.com, will be the sole judge and arbiter. I am not eligible to win, and neither are members of my immediate family. Any person who, for any reason, has been banned from submitting to MicroHorror.com is also ineligible.
- These rules are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on the front page of MicroHorror.com. I reserve the right to cancel the contest at any time for any reason.