Machine of Death is an upcoming published anthology of short stories edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki, inspired by this episode of Ryan’s Dinosaur Comics.

They’re soliciting short story submissions for the book, and submissions are free and open to anyone.

Your mission, as a writer, is to come up with the best possible story that fits in the world described in the introduction. The only major difference between THAT world and THIS world is that people in THAT world can undergo a cheap and easy blood test to find out how they are going to die. So the stories that we’re interested in are those that somehow explore that idea in an interesting or entertaining way.

Link (via BoingBoing)