The contest this time asks you to write a story that includes the phrase Blue Blood Cell.

Is this a place, a rare medical book, something real, something alien? Is it an object, a fantasy, a person, an animal? Does it really exist or is it the figment of someone's imagination?

Your story may be mystery (in any of its many and varied forms) or mysterious speculative fiction.

Work Blue Blood Cell into a story and send us your best.

DETAILS:

Length: up to 7500 words

DEADLINE: June 30, 2005

Winners will be announced/published in the September 2005 issue.

Prizes include:

$25.00 to the first place story;

publication of the top three stories in the September 2005 Mysterical-E

Staff of Mysterical-E and their families are prohibited from submitting work to this contest.