Have you heard the news? Vibewire.org is now themed each month. Better still, this new direction will benefit our contributors even more than before. Why? Because Vibewire will now produce a quarterly Anthology of the best submissions from each theme.

“What will we do if an Islamist regime [...] ever acquires long-range nuclear weaponry? If history is any guide, we will not be sure about where the offending warheads [are...] and so we will be unable to rely on targeted, conventional weapons to destroy them. In such a situation, the only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own.”

Over the past few days, several of us here at Vibewire have been reading and judging the freaky stories that have been sent to us…
There were some unique and morbidly fascinating ideas thrown at us, from dead dogs to severed thighs, self-loving plasticine to white-wine induced homocide, cadavers with pink-eye to the haunting beast Rasheesh and even failed pick-up attempts to back-breaking poltergeists!

Touted as Australia’s fastest growing music festival, Stereosonic boasted a stellar line up including old school nineties act, Chicane, Dutch sensation Fedde Le Grand and the highly anticipated Canadian rodent, Deadmau5.

Whatever genre you are used to writing within, it is time to step outside your comfort zone and create some scary stuff by writing in blood… metaphorically of course!
All you have to do is send us your best horror story or poem of 500-800 words and bring a chill to our spine! Shockingly simple.

After a spate of recent incidents with Qantas aircraft, the safety integrity of the airline is once again being questioned. Will the airline clean up its act or will it take a catastrophic disaster for Qantas to change its practices?