Paying Market: Existential

29 April 2010
Paying Market: Existential
You will be paid $50 by paypal for full rights to your piece if your story is published on existential.com.

Submit a 400 to 1100 word Story or Essay to Existential.com: Get paid $50

Stories must be about one of these themes:

1. Fear of the Unknown: No one knows what the future holds. Explain a time where you persevered in spite of your fear of the unknown. Fear of the Unknown is a very broad term. It can be big questions like what happens after death or dealing with basic day to day realities and not knowing what is lurking behind the corner.

2. Fear Under Control: A time when fear controlled you and what you did to overcome it. A piece that gets to the essence of what fear does to you or a character you created.

3. Existence, Consciousness, Reality: Essays or Stories that offer thought provoking theories about existence, consciousness or reality. Questions you might ask yourself after seeing movies like: Avatar, Memento, Contact, The Matrix, Being John Malcovich, Vanilla Sky, The Truman Show, etc.

4. Mortality as a source of motivation. Write a story or essay about how having limited time to live motivates you to achieve your goals.

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