So, I stumbled upon "Comets and Criminals" (the 'zine Izz is working on) a few days ago. They wanted flash fiction and I remembered an idea for a piece that I never got to write and decided to give it a shot. After rewriting the third draft, I'm now thinking of whether I should send it in (wasting Izz's time is the last think I'm willing to do). I do not have much experience in genre fiction and so I do not know where is the boundary between "General with a hint of genre" and "full-fledged genre".
The problem is that the story centers the two of the characters and not around inventions, aliens and all that good stuff. There are strong hints at what point in time the world is in, references to technology and the story itself is set in an "invention" of mankind as opposed to something devine (that why I can't skip the SciFi - it could result in misinterpritation) but nothing really direct.
Anyway, here's the skeleton:
MC opens a door into a never-ending white room that lives outside of "normal" laws of physics and finds out that in here he can no longer experience. There he meets a clone of himself, a so called "friend" who asks him a number of questions, sparking up a conversation. Over the course of a conversation the readers learn that yesterday was the day MC commited suicide (his memories of the last day on Earth is what the story really centers around) and that this "white room" is a man-made form of limbo used to study the nature of death.
END.
Do you think a editor looking for SciFi would even look at it?
The problem is that the story centers the two of the characters and not around inventions, aliens and all that good stuff. There are strong hints at what point in time the world is in, references to technology and the story itself is set in an "invention" of mankind as opposed to something devine (that why I can't skip the SciFi - it could result in misinterpritation) but nothing really direct.
Anyway, here's the skeleton:
MC opens a door into a never-ending white room that lives outside of "normal" laws of physics and finds out that in here he can no longer experience. There he meets a clone of himself, a so called "friend" who asks him a number of questions, sparking up a conversation. Over the course of a conversation the readers learn that yesterday was the day MC commited suicide (his memories of the last day on Earth is what the story really centers around) and that this "white room" is a man-made form of limbo used to study the nature of death.
END.
Do you think a editor looking for SciFi would even look at it?
