Smart Search List of the Day Fee-Free Mainstream Flash Fiction

We seek words that arrive casually, like a remark at brunch, yet linger long after the plates are cleared. We welcome poetry, short fiction, hybrid essays, and visual experiments that blur genre, bend time, and haunt the reader. Send us speculative, uncanny, and formally daring work that lingers in the mind long after closing the tab.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Argyle Literary Magazine (The Argyle for short) philosophy is simple: Good writing should be celebrated not segregated. We don’t follow a particular aesthetic nor do we prefer a certain “type” of literature or art. What we do care about is the artistry and impact of a piece: How we are touched, changed, even shaken to our cores by the images and words that wait for us just around the corners of proverbial pages…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 28.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

Founded in September, 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. Our mission is to form a global “think tank” of inquisitive, worldly scribblers, collectively striving towards excellence and, if possible, world domination. We consider a variety of genres.
Genres:         General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Western.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 81.3 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

We are The Metaworker, an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Our mission is to publish great things to read. Send us the stuff you don’t think will be published anywhere else. We want new ideas, words that make us ponder, narratives that upend stereotypes…
Genres:        Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 132.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

We publish short poems, very short fiction, art and photography.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 29.4 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 18.2% of fiction submissions accepted.