Quietly Apocalyptic: Bête Noire Takes Even Odds

The poem, that is, “Even Odds” was on a quietly apocalyptic theme, the end of the world and all.  Then Sunday night word came from Editor A.W. Gifford that we shall all have a chance to read it.  Thank you for submitting “Even Odds” to BÊTE NOIRE.  We are pleased to inform you that your work has been accepted for publication in our fall [image error]issue due out in October, 2018.  So it will be a while before it’s published, nearly a year, but hey, remember, it’s apocalyptic (though quietly so, one must emphasize) and we wouldn’t the world to end too soon, now would we?

BÊTE NOIRE specializes in fiction and poems that are, to quote the guidelines, well written, character driven and have a dark bent to them.  We are open to most genres as long as they have a dark side.  This includes horror, dark sci-fi, dark fantasy, crime, mystery or dark humor.  So we might expect, even with Christmas fast approaching, “Even Odds” is unlikely to be exactly jolly.

But then if it were, it probably wouldn’t have been accepted.