Murky Depths,
Crossed Genres (the magazine--not the publishing company), and all forthcoming anthologies from Library of Horror Press are dead. I'm sad in the case of
Murky Depths (but glad to have "Shoes for the Journey" published before its demise--it was a beautiful mag) and
Crossed Genres (which published my longish-short "Down There" earlier this year). The Library of Horror situation rankles a bit. I had two stories slated for future publication from LoH, one in
Witchology and the other in
Made You Flinch, Again (again?).
This--the frequent death of short story markets--more than anything, puts me off writing more shorts. Markets come and go--even after you've signed a contract. If I'm running my writing life as a business, I'm not sure it makes much sense.
But then again, I'm not sure anything I've done in my writing career makes much sense. I tend to follow my heart:
