Space and Time: Leave the Light On · No. 157 · December 2026 Space & Time Free Tip Jar Option

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For: December 2026 · Issue 157

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Space & Time publishes curated monthly issues featuring themed speculative flash fiction and poetry. We seek boundary-breaking work that disrupts, illuminates, and transforms, with a special love for genre-blending stories and poems that bring horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the strange into conversation.

Issues release each month and are available globally through retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and more. Editions include ebook, standard print, large print, and dyslexia-friendly print.

We welcome speculative fiction and poetry with a strong sense of voice, atmosphere, imagination, and risk. Work may be strange, beautiful, unsettling, lyrical, experimental, mythic, futuristic, haunted, or difficult to classify.

We also accept submissions in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian for translation into English.

Guidelines

• Speculative flash fiction up to 1,000 words
  
• Speculative poetry up to 35 lines
• Poetry can be any form or style
• Please send only one poem or story per submission
• Standard Shunn electronic manuscript format
• Include your name and email in the document
• Simultaneous submissions welcome
• If accepted elsewhere, withdraw promptly via Duosuma

• $10 (0.01 per word), paid for fiction upon acceptance
• $5 per poem (up to 35 lines)
• Digital contributor copy included
• Payment made via PayPal

Space & Time purchases Space & Time purchases first print and electronic publication rights. All rights revert to the author after publication.

For countries where PayPal does not operate, alternative payment methods may be considered. Authors are responsible for ensuring they have a viable payment method.

Submit through Duosuma: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/space-and-time-nDoUw

More information: spaceandtime.net