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Literary Flash Fiction

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Flash Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
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100 Word Story Fees

One hundred seems perfect. It’s the basis of percentages, the perfect test score, the boiling point of water (Celsius), purity. Pythagoreans considered 100 as divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad (10). Even a Scrabble set has 100 tiles. And yet 100 is a fragment. It’s an arbitrary marker, like the “First 100 Days” of a president’s term—merely a promise of what’s to come, or a whiff of what has passed. The whole is a part and the part is a whole…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Claudine

Claudine is free, online monthly literary magazine. Each issue presents two microfictions, two micro creative nonfictions, a micro by a new writer, and a prose chapbook review (or two). Just like Claudine the cat, the prose we publish is curious, clever, and quick. Our mission is to rekindle each reader's sense of humanness through original microprose and to highlight the breathtaking array of story and emotion captured in prose chapbooks produced by small, independent presses…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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dogyard mag Wildcard

dogyard is an online literary journal that prioritizes you and your wild side. Inspired by those ruff writers that came before us, we want accessible, quick reads that everyone can sink their canines into. The dogyard is grass-roots, full of love, and just looking to meet you wherever you are. In this anti-intellectual age, these dogs are ready to bite back. Over in this yard, we're all friends—all dogs in a pound just waiting for you to either adopt or read us…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 77.3 days.

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Furious Fiction

On the first weekend of every month, you are invited to put your storytelling skills to the test in the ultimate writer-takes-all short story competition.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Good River Review

Good River Review is the literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 88.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Ink In Thirds

A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Instant Noodles

VISION: To expand the opportunities available to authors by providing a digital platform to showcase short works of fiction/flash fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, visual art, media art, and poetry. MISSION: To support creators in their publishing journey, whether they are new established by offering a quality place to be published that is free to submit to and free to read/view.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 31.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 36.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Macabre Magazine

At Macabre Magazine: Where Horror Comes Home, we are dedicated to publishing the strongest voices in commercial horror fiction while upholding the values of literary citizenship. We champion short stories and flash fiction that thrill, unsettle, and endure.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 22.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MENACE Magazine Mature

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. 8.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Offing

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 78.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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