NOTHE

NOTHE seeks stories that feature developed characters and plots. Although we do seek lunacy and radical texts (please no “experimental” texts – all acts of literature are experimental), the submitter would do well to question whether or not their stories feature a clear central event, a strong dilemma, a compelling decision & action, and a logical or irresistibly illogical resolution that your narrative renders inevitable. It is unlikely that stories under 5000 words will successfully develop stories of this kind and in ways that avoid cliché.

As above, NOTHE seeks poetry that goes beyond cheap clichés and would prefer not to see the word “I” unless “you” can do something extraordinary with “it.” Short is copacetic, but poems capable of the bloodshed and occasional ceasefire we seek will normally display feats of unstable, tenacious, indigestible, and utterly savory compositions of length. Please note that poems deploying the word "like" in order to convey simile will be of no interest to us. Find another way.