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Smart Search List of the Day 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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100-Foot Crow

We’re an online literary magazine exclusively focused on speculative drabbles—that is, 100-word science-fiction and fantasy stories. Why drabbles? Because drabbles are the best! They are delicious little literary snacks. They are easy to read and deliver an incredible bang for your buck—an entire story you can read in less than a minute! Who wouldn’t want that? (The answer is no one. Everyone wants that…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $8.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Cryptic Frog Quarterly

Our magazine is edited and published by a team of interdimensional wizard frogs. We publish speculative fiction, including fantasy, science fiction, and horror. We aim to entertain, entrance, and enlighten.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $3.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 26.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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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. 18.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% 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. 28.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Hobbyhorse Magazine Wildcard

Hobby (noun): a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation Horse (transitive verb): to move by brute force Together, Hobbyhorse hopes to be “a topic to which one constantly reverts” Hobbyhorse Issues contain a variety non-fiction, fiction, and multi-media pieces
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for under 3500; $70 per piece for 3500-5000 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.0 days.

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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. 83.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Larina's Lit Lounge

A casual newsletter for readers and writers of poetry and fiction, especially in the speculative realm. Each issue of Larina’s Lit Lounge has a writing prompt. All submissions should address the writing prompt in some way, though the connection may be slight.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Small Wonders Magazine

Small Wonders Magazine publishes original and reprint flash fiction and narrative poetry, all tinged with the wonder of other worlds both science fictional and fantastic.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word; reprints: $0.01/word or $10, whichever is more.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 81.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge

Translunar Travelers Lounge is a speculative fiction magazine that aims to explore the fun side of fantasy and science fiction. Put down your bags, take a seat, and relax with our fine selection of short fiction.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.03/word, min. $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 52.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Triptych

Triptych is an independently published journal looking for fiction rooted in the strange, the mythic, and the gothic. We seek work that unsettles gently: stories built from memory, ritual, and the lingering shadows of worlds that might have been.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 29.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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