Final Weekend; the Guillotine Draws Near

Midnight Sunday brings September to a close. With that auspicious ending comes the real, true, not-to-be-pushed-back deadline for Hot Metal Bridge’s second issue (except that you will also have all of Monday to submit your work). The theme, as ever, is “Headless.” Do you have a fine little story, a taut poem full of riveting images–but nothing relating to what Webster’s defines as the condition of having no head? A non-fiction story in which someone almost–but, ultimately, does not–lose his or her head? Send it anyway. Of course, we will like it better if you fudge a bit and say yes, come to think of it your cousin did, after that last-paragraph epiphany, ride his/her motorcycle through a razor wire, thus losing his/her head in quite literal fashion. But even so, we want your work. You will have to trust me on this, but the issue as it exists now, in an amorphous state but with many of its larger components set, is going to be awesome. You will want to be part of it. You will not regret time spent this early autumn weekend refining things, polishing things, and, mayhaps, lopping heads off things.