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Fee-Free Science Fiction Flash Fiction

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Science Fiction Flash Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
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Dark Moments Drabble Monthly Challenge

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Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.04/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Future Fire

The Future Fire (TFF) is our flagship online magazine, always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, World SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Golgonooza Magazine

Golgonooza Magazine is a new venture from our artistic collective dedicated to the exploration and innovation of The Weird as an artistic philosophy. If your work squirms away from category, peels at the cracks in the surface of the world or sleeps deeply with unseen things, consider submitting to Golgonooza Magazine.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 70.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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HEXFILED Magazine

HEXFILED started because the boxes did not fit. You cannot fit a hexagon into a square. It sits uncomfortably between shapes. Rougher around the edges than a circle. Less rigid than a square. Even given the same perimeter, a hexagon holds less area than one and more than the other. It occupies an unstable middle ground, never fully realized on either side. When a story straddles this liminal in-between, it risks invisibility. This is what we collect. This is what we file away…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 21.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Intrepidus Ink

Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Lowestoft Chronicle

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. 76.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Luna Station Quarterly

The on-going mission of Luna Station Quarterly is to display the vast and varied talents of women-identified speculative fiction writers.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 per story.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Nature

Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature. Contributions are usually commissioned, but unsolicited articles are welcome. Each Future should be an entirely fictional, self-contained story, and the genre should, broadly speaking, be 'hard' (that is, 'scientific' SF) rather than, say, outright fantasy, slipstream or horror.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: GBP £85.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.4 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 22.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Phoenix Wildcard

The Phoenix literary journal craves memorable, evocative work. Created in 1958 in the heart of Western North Carolina and has a long tradition of publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, artwork, and photography. Sponsored by both Pfeiffer University and the Piedmont Institute of Music, Communication, and Art, The Phoenix also holds a yearly Emerging Writers Contest.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.5 days.

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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

Founded July, 2019, we are a growing science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. We want enthralling stories set in futures we might want to live in. Counter to the recent dystopian craze, we publish stories that shine with a more optimistic future, one we want to believe in, one we would fight for.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 106.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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