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Humorous Fiction

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The Baffler

The epigraph stamped on The Baffler no. 1, from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Morning of Drunkenness,” introduced it as a punk literary magazine. It was the summer of 1988. The founders, Thomas Frank and Keith White, were recent graduates of the University of Virginia. They named their magazine as a joke on academic fads like undecidability, then in fashion…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 203.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Booth Fees

Booth debuted in 2009. Our staff is comprised of students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler University MFA program.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Fiction on the Web

Fiction on the Web is a labour of love. Every single story on here is hand-picked and carefully copyedited by me. Any money I make from donations is ploughed back into the site and related projects. I do this because I want to give authors a chance to get their work out there, and I love sharing great stories with the world. Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the longest-running short stories website on the Internet…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £15 or USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Little Old Lady Comedy

We're a group of little old ladies at heart who've traded gossiping on park benches for hunting down the internet's finest comedy. Every evening, we set aside our needlework to read submissions, though the truly hilarious ones leave us in stitches. We invite you to join our Little Old Ladyhood, where we trade endless scrolling for something more beautiful, perhaps even a little archaic: good comedic literature and cartoons…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 62.5% 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: Slower than average responder. 86.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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nachtljocht Fees

nachtljocht is a quarterly literary journal for fiction and short plays. The name is Frisian for “night light.” The small one left on in the dark, the one you read by when you cannot sleep. We are building a home for good writing without restrictions on genre, form, or subject matter. The strange, the quiet, the romantic, the horrific, the impossible. If it is well-made, we want to read it. What we're looking for: Good writing. Work that knows what it's doing…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $15 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Okay Donkey Magazine

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per flash.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Slackjaw

We publish daily humor on Medium.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Royalties. Details: earnings through Medium's partner program.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Winamop Wildcard

Winamop was conceived on a whim, is run on a shoestring, ignored by the many, loved by the few and has continued unabashed since 2003. All human life is here, experienced people, skilled writers and rank amateurs, sometimes they hit the mark, sometimes they belly-flop (sometimes they mix their metaphors). You pick up the pieces and make of them what you will.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.7 days.

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