IMPORTANT: We hold strong moral ethics and will not accept work with racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, or sexual violence. The only exception is if the submission is speaking from their own experiences of these things (not explicitly), however, no hate at all is tolerated.
The Solitude Diaries yearns to fill a space in the community for those that enjoy introspective horror, the morbid and macabre, and classic gothic literature. Our themes include: goth subcultures, romanticism & nature, classic literature and art, the morbid and macabre, and philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Issue vi themes
folie à deux
the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another
Etymology: French, literally, double madness, circa 1892
- Burlesque, cabaret
- Carnival, circus
- Performance
- Observation
- Obsession
- Deadly duos
- Glamour ghouls
- Gothic vampires
- Oddities and curiosity
*Please be mindful if your work is explicit, please put trigger warnings

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Poetry (up to 30 l ines)
Micro (up to 500 words)
Flash fiction (up to 1.5k words)
Short story (up to 3k words)
Fiction (up to 6k words)
Non-fiction/essay (up to 6k words)
Original art/photography
September 18th

- Burlesque, cabaret
- Carnival, circus
- Performance
- Observation
- Obsession
- Deadly duos
- Glamour ghouls
- Gothic vampires
- Oddities and curiosity
folie à deux
the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another
Etymology: French, literally, double madness, circa 1892