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Fantasy Flash Fiction

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Gavagai

Gavagai is a place for writers and readers to share original stories, discover new voices, and build community. We believe thoughtful writing deserves a thoughtful home. Our editorial team curates stand‑out work, while our tools help authors present beautiful, accessible stories. Readers can follow favorite authors, collect stories, and explore Editor Picks.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine

GossamerWight is an independent online literary magazine founded in the UK in 2025. We publish quarterly digital anthologies of dark, unconventional, and uncanny writing: horror—both folk and mainstream—weird, New Weird, speculative, dystopian, supernatural/spectral, fantasy, and Gothic works. If it unsettles, haunts, or quietly refuses to behave, it may well feel at home with us.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 28.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Lit Nerds

We believe in good writing. We believe in living life intentionally and enjoying as much of it as possible. We believe in not feeding the corporate outrage algorithms. We believe in being informed, in being kind, and in doing what we can to make life a little more livable for everyone. The Lit Nerds publishes work with a focus on the bright side of humanity. Work that prioritizes hope and joy, even amidst suffering. Work that promotes empathy and gallantry and human connection…
Genres: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Western.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MoonPark Review

MoonPark Review is an online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose that breaks our hearts, haunts us, makes us laugh, or gives us hope. We love flash fiction, prose poems, and hybrid forms.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Northern Shadows Magazine

Welcome To The Shadows. . . … where the inky darkness that exists in every corner of all realities awaits a distraction to pull you under. The stories contained within our issues explore all these dark places: from the woods outside your bedroom window, to the basement of a fairy’s treehouse and everywhere in between. “What was that bump in the night?” “Did that shadow just move?” “Is anywhere safe anymore? We invite you into our pages to find the answers to these questions, and many more…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 23.4 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 27.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Perseid Prophecies

Perseid Prophecies is an independent quarterly speculative fiction magazine. Every issue features fiction from a broad range of science fiction and fantasy, including everything from hard SFF, weird fiction, sci-fi tinged horror, and more. Additionally, each issue offers a factual scientific article, unique cover art, and an editorial titled “Raye’s Rant.”
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Plott Hound Magazine

We’re on the trail. We got our noses to the ground. In this den there are plott hounds sniffing out for quality animal-centric speculative fiction. Here at Plott Hound Magazine, we want stories that really dig deep into what it’s like to be an animal yet also teach us what it means to be human. Both deeply animal and deeply human. Humans have had enough stories to go around and more. It’s time to make some room for the ones with paws, claws, fangs, and tails…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word for originals; $20 for reprint flash fiction; $100 for reprint short stories.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 13.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Rotting Leaf Mag

Rotting Leaf Mag is an online magazine that publishes literature from the realms of the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.06/word with $30 minimum.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 13.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Space & Time Magazine

Founded in 1966 by Gordon Linzner, Space & Time is one of the oldest continuously published semi-pro speculative fiction magazines still in print. For nearly six decades, the magazine has championed science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry, art, and the beautifully strange…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 110.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Sugared Water Wildcard

If we could candy words, we’d eat them to bellyaches every afternoon. We carry journals and collect chapbooks like Smaug ripping through a gold-sequin disco. If we’re lucky enough to leave something behind that enriches the dialogue of writerly types around the world, so much the better. Give us your briar patches and shady ladies, your heroes and literary tales. (If you dare to send us a story with a unicorn, she better be a chain smoker.)
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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