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Fee-Free Science Fiction Flash Fiction

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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 Dread Literary Review

The Dread Literary Review is an independent online literary magazine focused on displaying poems and fictions crafted around the themes of horror, mystery, and speculation.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.0% 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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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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Jersey Devil Press

The Jersey Devil is a creature of legend, lurking in the shadows of the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, revealing itself only to wreak havoc on some small town, snack on some poor, unsuspecting chicken or goat, and, occasionally, if it’s feeling a little randy, to hit on mermaids down the Jersey shore…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 81.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% 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. 59.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 26.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Orion's Belt

Orion’s Belt is the home of bold, experimental literary science fiction and fantasy. We want stories that make us think about our place in the universe and our relationships with each other. We want stories that blur the line between “genre” fiction and literary fiction. We want stories that reach toward the stars while never forgetting the people on the ground. And we want it all in under 1000 words. It’s a difficult challenge, but we have faith in you, fellow cosmonauts…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 26.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% 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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Sci-Fi Lampoon Magazine

Send us your best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor. We’re looking for flash and short fiction, as well as high-res art, lampoon classifieds, and ads. We accept humorous speculative fiction, an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements. This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof. Humor. Satire…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Triptych

A journal of speculative fiction shaped by the fleeting summers and long winter dark of New England.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 31.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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