It’s been said that sports are “war, minus the shooting.” But beneath the lacquered hardwood and the ChemGrass manufactured turf, a menagerie of corruption teems–bribery, drugs, murder, dark money, and more. Since at least the days of Pheidippides, athletics have contested man against man in games and agons, and every hard fought victory’s mired by avarice, stained by blood.
This August 28, let’s raise an Olympic torch and don our laurel wreaths. We’ll toast the famous and the infamous, the champions and the disgraced, the fixers and the dealmakers who power play in skyboxes and bookie bars, setting every score. Draw a quick play and kick past the goal posts, but there is only one thing that matters in this arena: who is and isn’t–
JUICED
Please send submissions to contact@apocalypse-confidential.com as a Word or Google doc for written submissions and .jpgs or .pngs for visual submissions, with how you’d like to be credited, a short bio in third person, and any links for promotion (blog, portfolio, etc.). Include your Twitter handle if you wish to be tagged. Please limit fiction submissions to around 2k words. This special presentation is open in all categories. No simultaneous submissions. Please include “JUICED” in the subject line or body of your email. Deadline: August 16.
Artwork by Robert Voyvodic.