Short Stories

Black Cat Weekly is a weekly publication showcasing the best in original, modern, and classic mysteries, adventure stories, fantasy, and science fiction.
Genres:     Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word, $5 minimum up to $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

This magazine is for those days, when you work to keep up your eyelids, when the face of a friend overwhelms. It is light and small enough to hold with your body squeezed between heavy blankets. Blanket Gravity is notes to your friend in crisis, to yourself in the words you needed. This is a place for you to sit, then set aside and come back to. Because your life is important—you are essential and worthy of care…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $40 per accepted piece.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 74.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

A place for the discussion of dreams, the analyses of fantasies, the prodding of popular larks.
Genres:   Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

A mini anthology series of fabulously fun, deliciously dark short fiction.
Genres:     Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: GBP £20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

Interzone is a European zine publishing fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet IZ was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Press and edited by Gareth Jelley.
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:    Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: EUR €0.015/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Established in 2008 by Gil Williamson, Mythaxis began as a self-coded webzine with an unpredictable release schedule and a close-nit group of regular contributors. Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson since 2020, the magazine is now a clockwork-quarterly publication and welcomes new writers from around the world and shares their work in audio too! But some things never change: Mythaxis has always been focused on the fiction, with as little distraction as possible - no ads, no clutter, just quality…
Genres:   Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word, with a $20 minimum, $50 maximum.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.7% of fiction submissions accepted.