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Review of Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask (Meerkat Press, 2017) is a collection of twenty super hero stories, but you won’t find a lot of knock-down, drag-out fights between heroes and villains in this anthology. Instead, Behind the Mask focuses on super heroes dealing … Continue reading

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Mad Scientist Journal is open to submissions!

For the month of June, Mad Scientist Journal is open to submissions of regular stories (flash and short), quarterly-exclusive stories (flash and short), and classified ads. To learn more about what we’re looking for and how to submit, check out our Submissions … Continue reading

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An Interview with Matt Youngmark

Matt Youngmark recently agreed to sit down for a virtual interview with editor Dawn Vogel. Not only is he a friend of the MSJ editors, he’s also done a couple memorable covers for our quarterly magazine, and he’s also the … Continue reading

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Announcing the Utter Fabrication Table of Contents!

We have all the contracts back from the authors, so we feel comfortable sharing this list of stories that will be in the anthology. We received 242 submissions., ore than double our previous record amount. There were many good stories, … Continue reading

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Mad Artists Making a Creepy Podcast!

Do you like spooky stories? Have you lost entire hours reading about monster lore and bizarre unsolved mysteries on Wikipedia? Are you super-fascinated with this one serial killer, but don’t really tell people because you don’t want them to think … Continue reading

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Review of Never Now Always by Desirina Boskovich

Never Now Always by Desirina Boskovich (Broken Eye Books, 2017) is a young adult novella that explores memory, time, and family. Lolo is one of the “rapt children,” young people who are studied by aliens known as the Caretakers. The … Continue reading

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Catching Up with Our Mad Scientist Authors

We’ve been remiss in posting about other things that our alumni have been up to, so here’s a recap of some of the news we have to share! The Centropic Oracle, which hosts audio versions of short stories, includes a … Continue reading

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Utter Fabrication is now on Kickstarter!

Mad Scientist Journal is running a Kickstarter for our fourth anthology! This year, it’s Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structures. We want to create a collection of stories about haunted houses and other weird places, told from the perspective … Continue reading

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Adventures of Mad Scientists!

Several of our MSJ alums have recently produced a variety of new works. Today, we’re rounding them all up! Frequent MSJ contributor Maureen Bowden was the guest editor for the November 2016 issue of Liquid Imagination. You can read an … Continue reading

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Ask a Mad Scientist for Advice

We are once again looking for people to provide questions for our “Ask a Mad Scientist” column that appears in our quarterly. If your question is used in a column, you receive a free copy of that quarterly, and will … Continue reading

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