Ding, dong, the story's dead

"The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe"

3,247 / 3,247 (100.0%)

Okay, so it ended much more quickly than I expected.

I don't know, at present, whether the story works. All I know is that I've written a story with nary a speculative element in it, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I mean, I can only think of one other time I've done that, and it was on commission for the Microsoft Intern Game. I guess enough writers read this journal now that I can ask: where does one send such things? (Other than Paradox, the obvious one). Are there any other spec-fic markets that are friendly to non-speculative historical fiction? What about non-speculative markets?

I should, by the way, record my gratitude to Peter Farey, for applying Occam's Razor to the Le Doux theory and finding under the surface, not a Marlowe/Shakespeare conspiracy, but Anthony Bacon. For someone who had made a fairly scholarly and thorough argument for Marlowe as Le Doux as Shakespeare, it's impressive to see a follow-up where he sighs and demolishes his own argument to kindling. It saved me from this turning into a Marlovian story, hence the gratitude.

Anyway. It's written, and it can bloody well sit for a while before I deal with it again.