One Day More (to submit to Fireside)
Written by Elsa S. Henry, Assistant Submissions Editor
(Fireside closes to submissions at 11:59 p.m. EDT April 30. Help us publish even more stories by supporting our Patreon.)
BRIAN
One day more!
Another day to get a sub to me
Submissions can’t last an eternity
The stories that we read today
We’ll have to choose which ones will stay
One day more!
WRITER
I can’t submit until Sunday!
How can I live without submitting?
BRIAN
One Day More.
WRITER
Tomorrow my words will fly away!
I’m just so glad that we’ll be parted.
SLUSH READER
One more day to fill the pile
WRITERS
Should I write another draft?
SLUSH READER
One more day with numbers mounting
WRITERS
I was born to write for you!
SLUSH READER
What is hiding in the slush?
WRITER
And I swear it will be good!
SLUSH READER
You never know quite what you’ll find!
BRIAN
One more day until we close
WRITER
Do I sub or do I draft?
BRIAN
To the words that you’ve been writing
WRITER
Shall I join the writers pubbed?
BRIAN
As our issues begin to fill
WRITERS
Do I submit or do I wait?
BRIAN
Will you please send good stories?
SLUSH READERS
The time is now; the day is here!
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER
ONE DAY MORE!
BRIAN
One more day ’til closed submissions
We will read stories in the slush
We’ll be ready for these authors
They will show us what they’ve got
SLUSH READERS
Watch ’em run amuck,
Catch ’em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there’s a free for all,
Here’s a little fic
There a little spec
Most of them submitted
So we won’t miss much!
WRITERS (2 GROUPS)
[1:] One day to the end of submitting
[2:] Sending stories that I love
[1:] Every writer has their try
[2:] Every writer has their try
[1:] There’s a new story I’m submitting
[2:] There’s a new sub for the pile
All: Will you read the next Fireside?
WRITERS
My place is here; I write for you!
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER & B
ONE DAY MORE!
WRITERS
I did not sub until today.
SLUSH READERS:
One more day with numbers mounting
WRITERS
How can I live without submitting?
BRIAN (overlapping)
We will add more Fireside writers
We will publish what they wrote
We will read their favorite stories
We will know the tales they told.
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER (overlapping)
One day more!
WRITERS
Tomorrow is the last submissions day!
SLUSH READERS
What stories I have read
WRITERS
And yet my publishing’s just started
BRIAN (overlapping)
One more day ’til closed submissions
We will read stories in the slush
We’ll be ready for these authors
SLUSH READERS (overlapping)
Watch ’em run amok
Catch ’em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there’s an open call!
BRIAN
Tomorrow we’ll be closing up
Tomorrow is the judgement day
ALL
Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our readers at Fireside have in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
(Fireside closes to submissions at 11:59 p.m. EDT April 30. Help us publish even more stories by supporting our Patreon.)
