In a shameless appeal for help, I’m asking you to read one of my short stories and tell me what genre you think it is(and maybe why). I can’t be that objective, it seems, and I’ve never been very good at genre classification anyway.
http://www.geocities.com/theevilwriter/jude.html] it’s on my webpage here
This is an old story, but I’m writing something that’ll be the same genre, and I’m stumped on that too. :rolleyes:
I got, “This page cannot be displayed.” Sorry, man (girl?).
I couldn’t link to it either, because the URL comes out like %20[url, which won’t go anywhere.
Please fix it so we can read the tale!!!
Sigh. Sorry about that. I forgot to unclick the “automatically parse urls” button.
So, without further delay, Hunting Jude
Mephisto, I’ll settle for “girl” 
I believe it falls under the oh-so-slippery categories of:
–suspense
–psychological horror
–speculative fiction
Man, I hate labels. They’re so confining…
Okay, I’ll call it a suspenseful, mostly mainstream story.
Good stuff, by the way.
Wow, that does kinda straddle the genres, doesn’t it? I’ve read some things sort of similar to this in horror anthologies . . . it’s kind of a “Weird Tale,” really. I’d send this to a publisher of horror or general adult fiction. I also suspect that certain publishers of “Women’s Fiction” (you know, like Grandma buys at the grocery store–True Stories and the like) might consider something like “Hunting Jude,” what with the baby angle and all. You could always cheat and do what Dean R. Koontz does and say, “It’s cross-genre.”
Creepy and sad, but I liked it. IMO, you’ve got some talent.
Oh, and sorry about the gender mix-up, Miss Elfkin.
Thanks folks. Maybe my skills at classification aren’t so bad after all, if it’s hard to classify