NOW BOOKING

The Motel Desk is not a polished hotel lobby. It is the room at the end of the hall with the chain on the door, the curtains cracked, and something strange left in the drawer.

We publish 18+ erotic fiction, poetry, art, collage, photography, faux classifieds, and motel ephemera for readers who want desire with atmosphere. Our work is consent-centered, queer-friendly, kink-friendly, human-made, and proudly strange.

This is a zine for dirty little stories with style. For neon, privacy, pulp, locked rooms, secret notes, and consenting adults making bad lighting look good.

Check in. Read slowly. Leave the key at the desk.

Desire, delivered after dark.

OPEN CALLS

NOW BOOKING: VOL. 1, ISSUE 1
DO NOT DISTURB

The Motel Desk is now open for submissions for our first full issue: DO NOT DISTURB.

This issue is about voyeurism, privacy, locked rooms, peepholes, motel windows, consensual watching, exhibitionism, surveillance aesthetics, red recording lights, door chains, and the erotic tension of being seen.

We want 18+ work that is dirty, stylish, strange, literary, funny, tender, kinky, queer-friendly, and dripping with atmosphere. Give us neon. Give us secrets. Give us the room next door. Give us consenting adults who know exactly what they are doing.

We accept:

Fiction
Flash fiction
Poetry
Visual art
Photography
Collage
Comics
Erotic letters
Faux classifieds
Motel ephemera
Odd little things that don’t behave

This is a non-paying DIY zine. Contributors retain copyright. Accepted contributors grant The Motel Desk one-time, nonexclusive digital publication rights, plus permission to use brief excerpts or preview images for promotion with credit.

Pseudonyms are welcome.

Human-made work only. No AI-generated writing, art, photography, or collage.

18+ only. No minors in sexual situations. No hate. No eroticized assault. No eroticized nonconsensual recording. Kink is welcome. Consent is required.

Send submissions to:

moteldeskzine@gmail.com

Subject line:

DO NOT DISTURB Submission – [Genre] – [Name/Pseudonym]

Please include a brief cover note with your name or pseudonym, the title of your piece, word count if applicable, and whether the work is original or a reprint.

Expected response time: 30 to 60 days.

The chain is on.
The curtains are open.
Consenting eyes only.